Diabetes care
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Excess mortality and its relation to hypertension and proteinuria in diabetic patients. The world health organization multinational study of vascular disease in diabetes.
To determine the extent that mortality in IDDM and NIDDM patients is in excess of that of the general population and examine its relation to hypertension and proteinuria in diabetic patients. ⋯ Considerable international differences were found not only in mortality rates for the two types of diabetes but also in the extent of excess mortality among centers. IDDM patients had a high excess mortality in comparison with the general population. The significant excess mortality was demonstrated even in patients without proteinuria and without hypertension for both sexes and diabetes types.