To the Editor.—
In the April 1977 issue of Consultant, I read with interest the description of the association between diabetes and skin tags.1 Reportedly, several of the physician's patients with skin tags did not know they had diabetes until a diagnosis was made, and several others with no evidence of the disease developed diabetes several years later. To quote the authors, "you can almost predict that a man with skin tags will have diabetes if the lesions are multiple, large, hyperpigmented and bilateral."In a search of the standard textbooks and articles written about the cutaneous manifestations of diabetes, I could find no mention of this association. The author's viewpoint assumes that this is a fairly common association, and I would be interested to know whether dermatologists who are treating patients with skin tags have found these patients to also have diabetes. If such is the case, then