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 ...

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...