DIABETES MELLITUS AMONG DECEASED FROM 1992 TO 1996 IN REGION OF PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT NOVA GORICA
Abstract
Background, patients and methods. Analysis of
medical certificates of cause of death for 5431 deceased people
in region of Public Health Unit (PHU) Nova Gorica should
give us a useful data for prevalence study of diabetes in
region. Certificates have had some minor failings in data perfection
but they are still satisfactory for numerical analysis
and enable a rough evaluation of diabetes prevalence among
people more than 65 years old.
Results and conclusions. Analysis has shown that prevalence
of diabetes in region at the end of life is between 6 and 15
percents. Among females is prevalence doubled as among males.
The same ratio is seen when diabetes is basic cause of
death. In subregion of Ajdovščina is that ratio even 3:1. The
prevalence of diabetes in subregion Tolmin is hardly the half
of that in subregions Ajdovščina and Nova Gorica. The possible
cause for this observation are deaths of pronounced old
population, which have had little connections with health services
in subregion and had been badly evidenced, men much
more worse than women.
About one third of people with diabetes have died from diabetes
and his late complications. A half of people with diabetes
have died from cardiovascular diseases, and one tenth from
cancer and pulmonary diseases. All other causes have been
rare. The specific mortality rate for diabetics in region exceeds
Slovenian mean and even in literature cited evaluation for
the USA.
The youngest deceased diabetic was 41, and median age of
deads was 75 years. The median age of deceased diabetics in
region exceedes the Slovenian median age of all deaths, for 3
to 5 years.
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