Introduction:

diabetes mellitus, considered one of the main health problems worldwide, is among the diseases resulting more expensive to society, because of its high and early mortality.

Objective:

to characterize the behavior of mortality caused by diabetes mellitus in the municipality of Colon, in the last eleven years.

Materials and methods:

descriptive, retrospective study of the database of deaths from the Municipal Health Department of the municipality of Colon, from January 1st 2011 to December 31st, 2021. 221 subjects with diabetes mellitus with diabetes mellitus main cause of death were chosen. The independent variables were: year of death, gender, age and direct cause of death. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics, through SPSS package.

Results:

increasing tendency of mortality, more accentuated in 2021, when 38 diabetic patients died. Women (134) predominated over men (87) and predominated also the age group of 65 years and over (67.4 %). Hearth diseases (24 %), bronchopneumonia (20.4 %), and chronic renal failure (14.9 %) were identified as more frequent causes of death.

Conclusions:

mortality due to diabetes mellitus has showed an increasing tendency during the last eleven years; the predominance in women, people over 65 years, and hearth diseases as direct causes of death characterized its behavior.

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