MORTALIDADE POR DIABETES MELITO NO MUNICÍPIO DE SÃO PAULO

Abstract

The author studies mortality data of diabetes mellitus over a period of 61 years. He finds that proportionate mortality rates increase progressively and in the last years markedly; crude death rates for diabetes mellitus are also on the rise and that the increase can not be explained on the basis of increased life expectancy of the population alone. His data suggest an increase in life expectancy for diabetics probably related to decrease in fatality. Age distribuition shows a shift to older age groups over the period under study. The data show a sex difference in mortality by diabetes mellitus from 1929 onward while before the mentioned year no such difference is apparent. He discusses a few factors that could answer for the difference considering pregnancy probably the most important.