[Is there a variation of death causes in diabetic patients]

On the basis of the post-mortem records of the Institute of Pathology of the University and District Hospital Rostock taking into consideration the clinical records the cause of 355 diabetics who died in the Rostock clinics from 1956 to 1972 were established and analysed. The results were compared with similar examinations of previous years, in which cases among others we established an increase of the mortality of diabetes and an increase of pyogenic infections and sclerosing vascular diseases as causes of death in diabetics. Special attention is paid to the factors of risk for the development of complications dangerous to life in diabetics and it is referred to the prophylactic and therapeutic consequences, respectively, resulting from this.