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Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition
Chapter 36: Mortality Trends in Type 2 Diabetes

Figure 36.1 -- Image of certificate of death showing that in the U S, both demographic and cause-of-death information are recorded on the standard death certificate.

Figure 36.2 -- Bar chart showing similar rates of death among women and men by age per 100 individuals with diabetes.

Figure 36.3 -- Bar chart showing that diabetes becomes a more common cause of death with increasing age.

Figure 36.4 -- Bar chart showing that when adjusted for age, diabetes accounts for more deaths in non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic American Indians per 100,000 individuals of the general population than in other race/ethnicity groups.

Figure 36.5 -- Bar chart showing that the most common vascular cause of death among individuals in the U S with diabetes is ischemic heart disease, accounting for more than 20 percent of all deaths.

Figure 36.6 -- Table showing that diabetes was associated with death from cancers of the liver, pancreas, ovary, colorectum, bladder, lung, and breast. It was also associated with nonvascular, non cancer mortality.