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ea0041ep433 | Diabetes (to include epidemiology, pathophysiology) | ECE2016

Cause-of-death trends for diabetes mellitus over 20 years

Suh Sunghwan , Kim Mi-Kyung , Park Mi-Kyoung , Kim Duk Kyu

Background: Recently, diabetic mortality is lower than ever before, likely due to dramatic improvements in diabetes care. This study set to analyze changes in the cause of death in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the past 20 years.Methods: All subjects were T2DM patients over the age of 30 whose death certificates were issued at six hospitals in the Busan metropolitan area from 2010 to 2014. The patients were excluded if they had been clinically diagn...