[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.