Prognostic indices for hospital mortality among Libyan diabetic patients

What is it about?

The pattern of diabetic deaths in the medical wards of Tripoli Medical Centre was retrospectively studied. During a three-year period, 575 diabetic deaths occurred, accounting for 26.2% of all medical deaths. The mean age at death was 65.33±12.7 years. Cardiovascular disease (183 [31.8%]), cerebrovascular accidents (102 [17.7%]) and infection (83 [14.4%]) were the most common complications associated with diabetic deaths. Other causes were malignancy (10%), liver cirrhosis (5.6%), and acute diabetic complications (5%). Forty-five (7.8%) deaths unaccountable for may be due to other unknown causes.

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Why is it important?

we found that the excess mortality, among Libyan diabetics were due to atherosclerotic complications, which is potentially preventable through implementation of serious approaches to the management of cardiovascular risk factors.