Underlying Causes of Death of 1000 Patients with Diabetes

STUDIES of long-term trends of death rates were made more difficult by the adoption, in 1948, of the sixth revision of the Manual of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death. The earlier editions of the Manual gave priority to certain causes of death if they appeared on the death certificate. The sixth revision takes as the cause to be coded the underlying cause of death as stated by the certifying physician, irrespective of the causes that previously had priority.Formerly, if a certificate mentioned both diabetes and coronary-artery disease, the cause of death was . . .