Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Between-country comparability and validity of mortality statistics is a global public health challenge, especially for cause-of-death assignment of diabetes mellitus (here after diabetes) in relation to cardiovascular disease. The multiple contributing causes of death (MCD) representing comorbidity are not used to classify mortality cause, as the underlying cause of death (UCD) becomes the cause-of-death. Diabetes increases risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD). T...