[Some aspects of disability in patients with diabetes mellitus pa]. / Nekotorye aspekty invalidnosti bol'nykh sakharnym diabetom.

In the article, results are submitted of the study of disability of those persons presenting with diabetes mellitus (DM) in Tashkent over the period 1997-1998. Among DM subjects referrable to the examination, there prevails type 2 DM (13.9 +/- 1.6) and (10.6 +/- 0.7) years in duration in 1997 and 1998 respectively. Average DM subject age was (52.7 +/- 1.0) in 1997 and (49.7 +/- 0.8) in 1998 at the time the examined person was declared an invalid. Invalidism is noted to be on the increase (141%). At examination, more than 80 percent of persons presenting with DM are declared disabled.