Frequency and sex distribution of complications among Filipino diabetics: Known diabetic compared to new found diabetics

ABSTRACT

Diabetes mellitus afflicts more than one million Filipinos as shown by recent surveys. Most of them do not know they have the disease. Fatality and disability among diabetics is mostly associated with the nature and extent of so-called complications that precede, accompany or follow the onset of carbohydrate intolerance. Much has been written about organ involvement among diabetes abroad. Local material is still wanting at the present time. (Author)