%0 Journal Article
%T Mortalidad por diabetes mellitus y sus complicaciones, Ciudad de La Habana, 1990-2002
%A Conesa Gonz¨¢lez
%A Ana Ibis
%A D¨ªaz D¨ªaz
%A Oscar
%A Conesa del R¨ªo
%A Jorge R.
%A Dom¨ªnguez Alonso
%A Emma
%J Revista Cubana de Endocrinolog£¿-a
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X 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 padr¨®n, 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.
%K diabetes mellitus
%K complications
%K mortality.
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