Diabetes mellitus in Canada.

In this overview of diabetes mellitus in Canada, we discussed the following: (1) the increasing prevalence of diabetes from 2.4% known diabetes in 1985 to 5% in 1989; (2) the incidence of diabetes in Prince Edward Island and the marked variation of incidence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus between Montreal (9.2/100,000) and Prince Edward Island (25.5/100,000); (3) the marked variation in prevalence of diabetes in native Indians in various parts of the nation; (4) the high prevalence of microangiopathy and macroangiopathy in people with diabetes in Southern Alberta; and (5) mortality from diabetes in Prince Edward Island.