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1. A review is presented of 214 cases of diabetes in children, under my care from 1920 to 1934, which period goes back two years into the pre-insulin era. A gross mortality of 13% is recorded.
2. Of the 186 children living, forty-eight (25.8%) have had their diabetes ten or more years.
3. Of the twenty-eight children who died, 39.2% died in the first year of their diabetes; 64.2% died in the first three years of their diabetes.
4. In children, deaths from coma as given in the literature, run about 63% of the total mortality.
5. Deaths from tuberculosis, in my own series, were 10.6%.
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John, H.J. Mortality in diabetic children. American Journal of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition 1, 180–182 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02998823
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