The All-Cause Mortality and a Screening Tool to Determine High-Risk Patients among Prevalent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Table 1

Specific causes of death among prevalent T2DM patients within five years’ period.

Number	Causes of death	n	%
1	Diseases of the circulatory system	3003	28.4
2	Certain infectious and parasitic diseases	2077	19.7
3	Diseases of the respiratory system	1686	16
4	Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases	1010	9.6
5	Neoplasms	741	7.0
6	Diseases of the genitourinary system	613	5.8
7	Diseases of the digestive system	427	4.0
8	External causes of morbidity and mortality	276	2.6
9	Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes	224	2.1
10	Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue	172	1.6
11	Diseases of the nervous system	172	1.6
12	Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue	83	0.8
13	Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism	62	0.6
14	Others	11	0.1
	Not elsewhere classified	3323

The percentage was calculated without including the cause of death with not elsewhere classified.