title: A necropsy study of diabetes mellitus in natal blacks.
abstract: During a period of 10 years (1965 - 1974) necropsies on 126 Black diabetic patients were performed at King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban. Metabolic factors accounted for 39% of deaths and infection for 34% of all deaths in diabetes mellitus. Sixty-two per cent of the patients who died were below the age of 55 years. These findings are similar to those pertaining in the pre-insulin era.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D044383:Black People; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000401:mortality*; D003926:Diabetic Coma / Q000401:mortality; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications; D012737:Sex Factors; D013019:South Africa