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Proceedings of a September 1996 symposium, summarizing the latest experimental and clinical developments. Papers are grouped in sections on epidemiology, etiology and metabolism, insulin secretion, glycation, obesity and hyperlipidemia, complications, and treatment and education. Subjects include clinical and laboratory study in malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus, form and metabolic features in patients with impaired glucose tolerance, pancreatic amylin content and amyloid protein and their relations to clinical diabetes, and aldose reductase and diabetic chronic complications. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.