[Main causes of death of patients with diabetes mellitus].
Among the causes of death in the patients with diabetes mellitus in Ukraine there prevailed cardiovascular disease (73.1 +/- 0.19%); malignant neoplasms ranked second (12.1 +/- 1.2%); tuberculosis constituted 1.6 +/- 1.2%, and all the rest of the diseases - 13.1 +/- +/- 1.2%, including coma - 0.5%. The frequency of death, particularly from cardiovascular diseases, is influenced by the patients' age, the severity and the duration of metabolic disturbances. The methods of treatment, particularly the saccharolytic sulphanilamide preparations, produce no effect on the death incidence.
D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*
Vyiavlenie osnovnykh prichin smerti bol'nykh sakharnym diabetom