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THERE has long been a need for a rapid method for the quantitative determination of acetone in the blood and in the exhaled breath of the patient with diabetes mellitus. Since these concentrations are a direct reflexion of the diabetic state, precise acetone measurements would provide the physician with more accurate data with which to evaluate his diabetic patient. To be clinically practical, this analytical method should be specific, sensitive and rapid. An extension of an infra-red method previously reported1 provides the basis for this preliminary report on the analysis of actone in blood and in the expired air.
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Stewart, R. D., Erley, D. S., Torkelson, T. R., and Hake, C. L., Nature, 184, 192 (1959).
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STEWART, R., BOETTNER, E. & STUBBS, B. Rapid Infra-Red Determination of Acetone in the Blood and the Exhaled Air of Diabetic Patients. Nature 191, 1008 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1911008a0
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