Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexico City.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most large, prospective studies of the effects of diabetes on mortality have focused on high-income countries where patients have access to reasonably good medical care and can receive treatments to establish and maintain good glycemic control. In those countries, diabetes less than doubles the rate of death from any cause. Few large, prospective studies have been conducted in middle-income countries where obesity and diabetes have become common and glycemic control may be poor.

Methods

From 1998 through 2004, we recruited approximately 50,000 men and 100,000 women 35 years of age or older into a prospective study in Mexico City, Mexico. We recorded the presence or absence of previously diagnosed diabetes, obtained and stored blood samples, and tracked 12-year dis

SUBMITTER: Alegre-Diaz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215048 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature