Endocrine Abstracts

Background: In Republic of Korea, prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has increased substantially in recent decades, but there are no reliable estimates of the excess mortality currently associated with diabetes.Methods: We analyzed all subjects were T2DM patients over the age of 30 whose death certificates were issued at three hospitals in the Busan metropolitan area from 2010 to 2014. The causes of death were retrospectively determined based ...