PEDIATRICS Vol. 46 No. 4 October 1970, pp. 650-651
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Diabetes Mellitus and Congenital Rubella

Stanley A. Plotkin M.D.1 and Robert Kaye M.D.1

1 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1740 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19146

The article by Forrest, Menser, and Harley1 prompts us to report two further cases of diabetes in children whose mothers were infected with rubella while pregnant during the American epidemic of 1963 to 1964.

The first patient, a boy, was born at term in January 1965, weighing only 2,200 gm. His mother had an illness diagnosed as rubella in the first week of gestation. The family history of diabetes consisted of maturity-onset disease in the paternal grandfather and also in the materal great-grandmother.