[Life expectancy of diabetics].

The disease-specific life expectancy of diabetics is significant for the organisation of medical care. The investigations show that the disease-specific expectation of life of diabetics from the beginning of the disease is considerably more insignificant in comparison to the further life expectancy of the population in the younger and middle age groups. Only with increasing age of onset the life expectations of diabetics draw towards those of the population. Thus the lower life expectancy of the diabetics of younger age groups from the beginning of the disease now as ever may point to a higher risk in comparison to the disease population at the decline of life.