Update of mortality attributable to diabetes for the IDF Diabetes Atlas: Estimates for the year 2011

Author(s): IDF Diabetes Atlas Group

Abstract

Background: Mortality is an important measure of population health and is often used to assign priorities in health interventions. Estimating mortality due to diabetes has been challenging because more than a third of countries of the world have no reliable data available on mortality. Moreover estimating mortality attributable to Diabetes is especially challenging since most people die of a related vascular complication such as cardiovascular disease or renal failure.

Aims: The aim of the study was to provide estimate of the number of deaths attributable to diabetes for the year 2013.

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