Diabetes in the Nigerian African. II. Autopsy studies

Studies were carried out on diabetic patients that came to autopsy, over a 15-year period between 1959-1974 at the university college hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. The findings have shed some light on the natural history of diabetic illness in the nigerian african and are sufficiently interesting to warrant a more long term prospective study of similar cases that come to autopsy. They have shown that contrary to an earlier study Greenwood and Taylor (1968), the classical Kimmelstiel-Wilson's lesion of diabetic nephropathy is not as rare as these earlier observers had assumed and that some cases of "insulin resistance" may be associated with adrenal cortical adenomata.