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[weaver]

sorry to be morbid but does anyone know the percentage of people who have diabetes that actually die of complications as a result of the condition?

 

[bowell]

Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death listed on U.S. death certificates in 2006. This ranking is based on the 72,507 death certificates in 2006 in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death


In 2001, just under 7,000 deaths due to diabetes were officially recorded in the UK. However, the number of deaths attributed to diabetes in national mortality statistics is likely to be a huge underestimate of the actual number of deaths caused by diabetes. This is because other diseases caused by diabetes - such as CVD - are normally given as the cause of death in the death certificates of people with diabetes.

ref http://www.heartstats.org/datapage.asp?id=1113

for info
Diabetes Attributable Deaths exel sheet
http://www.yhpho.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=9941

Diabetes Attributable Deaths report pdf file
http://www.yhpho.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=9909

 

[Bigglesworth]

I think that you may find that cause of death classification is taken currently from the ICD10 rules; E10- E14 being the 'first' level code range involved. This means that where diabetes was considered the start of the morbid sequence then it is classified as the underlying cause and the other information on the death certificate is classified within the range detail. For 2008 the data for E&W was:

Diabetes mellitus 5541

Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus 316
With coma 6
With ketoacidosis 28
With renal complications 20
With neurological complications 1
With peripheral circulatory 49
With multiple complications 15
Without complications 197
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes 1767
With coma 27
With ketoacidosis 17
With renal complications 116
With neurological complications 3
With peripheral circulatory 356
With other specified complications 8
With multiple complications 34
With unspecified complications 1
Without complications 1205
Other specified diabetes mellitus 1
With peripheral circulatory complications 1
Unspecified diabetes mellitus 3457
With coma 81
With ketoacidosis 170
With renal complications 281
With ophthalmic complications 1
With neurological complications 12
With peripheral circulatory complications 642
With other specified complications 8
With multiple complications 75
Without complications 2187

The full tables can be found at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/ ... /DR_08.pdf
which can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet.