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CONESA GONZALEZ, Ana Ibis; DIAZ DIAZ, Oscar; CONESA DEL RIO, Jorge R.  e  DOMINGUEZ ALONSO, Emma. Mortality rate due to diabetes mellitus and its complications, Ciudad de La Habana, 1990-2002. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2010, vol.21, n.1, pp. 35-50. ISSN 1561-2953.

OBJECTIVE: to identify the mortality due to diabetes mellitus and its complications as a direct cause of death in Ciudad de La Habana and its distribution according to demographic variables during 1990-2002. METHODS: a descriptive and retrospective research was conducted. Databases of those deceased due to diabetes mellitus registered in the Statistics Provincial Department were used. RESULTS: there was a trend to decrease of diabetes mellitus mortality as a basic cause and its complications as direct cause of death, except for a moderate increase of renal complications. As more frequent direct causes of death were the cardiovascular complications; mortality was greater after 65 years old mainly in the 80-84 age groups and in the female sex. The municipalities with higher death adjusted rates were Habana del Este, Guanabacoa, Diez de Octubre, San Miguel del Padrón, Marianao and Lisa. CONCLUSIONS: in these places the medical care must to be increased to diabetes persons and try to decrease the mortality due this disease.

Palavras-chave : diabetes mellitus; complications; mortality.

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