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There is a mutual effect between gravidity and diabetes. Diabetes can have disadvantageous effect over gravidity, but the state of gravidity can contribute to the earlier diagnosis of diabetes. The author had 4850 cases of gravidity of 1686 women, indiscriminately, suffering from diabetes observed and on the basis of his observation he found that the manifestations of diabetes in the state of gravidity are respectively infrequent nowadays but the number of manifestation increases parallel with the fatness of women. The transitional diabetogen effect, the pathologic gravidities and the huge-embryos are, however, able to indicate the early stage of diabetes, that other methods or medical examinations could not still indicate. The birth of huge-embryos is the earliest and most characteristic praediabetic sign and it can appear 30 to 50 years before the development of diabetic trouble of metabolism. The number of pathological gravidities increases parallel with the advance of diabetic manifestation. The author emphasises on basis of his observations the importance of obstetrical and pregnancy-anamnesis in the prevention of diabetic manifestation and in the reduction of foetal losses.