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To evaluate mortality rates, underlying causes of death, and standardized mortality ratios among individuals diagnosed with diabetes relative to the general population.

July 1, 2004Diabetes CareOpen Access

Mortality and Causes of Death in a National Sample of Diabetic Patients in Taiwan

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CTChin‐Hsiao TsengNational Taiwan University Hospital

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Cohort study reveals elevated mortality and major cardiovascular risks in diabetic individuals, indicating most related fatalities are not directly certified as diabetes.

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To evaluate mortality rates, underlying causes of death, and standardized mortality ratios among individuals diagnosed with diabetes relative to the general population.
Assembled a cohort of 256,036 diabetic patients (118,855 men and 137,181 women; mean age 61.2 ± 15.2 years) through National Health Insurance records from 1995 to 1998, followed through 2001.
Verified fatalities via the National Register of Deaths, classified primary causes of death using ICD-9 codes, and calculated standardized mortality ratios using the general population as reference.
Over 1,124,348.4 person-years of follow-up, 43,888 deaths occurred, yielding a crude mortality rate of 39.0 per 1,000 person-years and an overall SMR of 1.63 (95% CI, 1.62–1.65).
Specific causes of death were diabetes (28.8%), cancer (18.5%), stroke (10.5%), cardiopulmonary disease (9.0%), digestive diseases (7.9%), infection (6.4%), and nephropathy (4.8%).
Mortality was significantly higher in men than women, and 71.2% of diabetes-related deaths were attributed to alternative primary causes, led by cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

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Chin‐Hsiao Tseng (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a72ae51439bab0cabc3e716 https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.27.7.1605

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Cohort study reveals elevated mortality and major cardiovascular risks in diabetic individuals, indicating most related fatalities are not directly certified as diabetes.

Mortality and Causes of Death in a National Sample of Diabetic Patients in Taiwan

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