Dissimilarities in the respiratory distress syndrome of infants of diabetic and nondiabetic mothers

Excretion of corticosteroids by infants of diabetic and pre-diabetic mothers.

“…Using such methods for the assay of groups of steroids, Rose (1960) found the corticosteroid excretion of infants of diabetic mothers to be normal, while Bjorklund (1954) and Farquhar (1956a) found it increased, and Field, Smith, and Reardon (1963) reported that the output of Porter-Silber chromogens in the urine of such infants when they developed respiratory distress was approximately twice as high as the output of these compounds in stressed premature infants born to women who did not suffer from diabetes.…”