[Mortality in children with diabetes mellitus in Moscow]. / Letal'nost' sredi detei s sakharnym diabetom v Moskve.

Analysis of the mortality of children with insulin-dependent diabetes in Moscow in the eighties revealed a very high specific incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis, the principal cause of lethal outcomes occurring in the period of the disease manifestation in more than a half of the analyzed cases. Mortality index among children with diabetes was found higher than in countries with well-developed economy. The overwhelming majority of untimely lethal outcomes of diabetes mellitus in childhood may be prevented.

[Epidemic outbreaks of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus]. / Epidemicheskie vspyshki zabolevaemosti insulinzavisimym sakharnym diabetom.

Analysis of annual and seasonal incidence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in children living in 4 Russian cities in the 1980s has shown only four rises of annual morbidity in three cities, but only one of them recorded in 1983 in Moscow conformed to the criteria of an epidemic outbreak of the disease. The incidence of the disease predominated by 29% in autumn-winter, though there was no clear-cut correlation between diabetes incidence, on the one hand, and incidence of influenza and acute respiratory diseases, on the other.