Epidemiology of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

Abstract

The epidemiology of diabetes mellitus (DM) is a section of diabetology that includes the study of the basic laws of the formation of the epidemiological situation and the epidemiological conditions in relation to this disease, as well as environmental, social and biological factors that determine the dynamics of its main epidemiological characteristics. The end points of the epidemic process are the prevalence of cases of the disease, their frequency and mortality of patients with diabetes. Each of these characteristics is determined by many factors that can change their importance, priority and even lose it over time. The epidemiological approach to solving a number of diabetological problems is based on the same principles as the epidemiology of other noncommunicable diseases: cardiovascular, oncological and some others. The main ones: the object of study is the population (population); the study of the disease is carried out in vivo of its development and course; in the researcher’s field of vision, the whole set of factors that can be associated with the fact of the development of the disease.