[Diabetes mellitus--age specific morbidity in the district of Newbrandenburg].

As a result of the investigations on the age-specific morbidity of diabetes mellitus in the county of Neubrandenburg is established that the risk of the disease greatly increases from the younger age-groups to the older ones. At old age the frequency of new diseases clearly decreases. It is probable that in genetically determined men on account of the risk factors, e.g. overweight, appearing more frequently with growing age diabetes becomes untimely manifest, so that they at first evoke the great increase of the age-specific frequency of new diseases. But then the risk-group of the population already fell ill as far as in the older age-groups the lower risk of a disease of the that group of population in dominating in which the diabetes genetically determines and finally becomes manifest. Also the age-specific amount and mortality rates are influenced by this. Whereas the age-specific mortality of the population of diabetics follows the risk of dying increasing at old age.