title: [The epidemiology and risk factors of diabetes mellitus in the region of the Ukrainian Carpathians].
abstract: The existent prevalence has been studied of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the territory of the Ukrainian Carpathians with special reference to DM types as well as climatic and geographic features of the region, according to the Saint Vincent Declaration Programme. As per 1st January, 1994, DM was diagnosed in 9321 patients, the index of DM prevalence (per 100,000) having been 866.1. Difference in index of DM prevalence among residents of low-mountain and median-mountain ranges, median-mountain and high-mountain ranges is clearly tending downwards (0,05 < P 0,1). Morbidity in the population of the high-mountain ranges is more than two times as low as that in the low-mountain range. The most significant risk factors appear to be age over 40, obesity, hypertensive disease, IHD, hypercholesterolemia, as well as some impacts from the surrounding environment provoking DM development in hereditary predisposition to this medical problem.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Pan'kiv
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014455:Ukraine / Q000453:epidemiology