Maternal serum anti-D antibody concentration and assessment of rhesus isoimmunisation.

months before starting treatment. Our previous study of the general public's knowledge of diabetes showed that fewer than one in 20 could name the combination of thirst and polyuria as symptoms, suggesting that poor levels of public health education for symptoms related to diabetes may have been an important cause of late presentation.5 Furthermore, earlier treatment might have been started in a third of our patients in whom the diagnosis either was made but not acted on or was overlooked. The results of this audit emphasise not only the need to raise awareness of diabetes among health professionals but also to increase the knowledge of major symptoms of diabetes by health promotion among the general public.