OBJECTIVE: To establish the causes of mortality in @entity1 with type-2 @entity6 and check the reliability of official records. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, descriptive study. SETTING: Urban health centre with a population which has aged and is depressed socially and economically. @entity1 : Randomised sample of 120 deceased @entity1 with type-2 @entity6 , extracted from the total number of deceased @entity1 with type-2 @entity6 on the centre's lists over the last five years. INTERVENTIONS: Personal details, clinical data and clinical cause of @entity204 were gathered from the history. Then the clinical cause of @entity204 recorded in the Civil Registry was obtained. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The main cause of @entity204 is @entity5 (25.8%), but if we group the cardiovascular causes they add up to 47.4% of the total. According to official statistics, @entity65 only occasioned @entity204 in 35% of cases. There was 61.7% overall concordance between the clinical cause and the official cause in the Civil Registry. There was close concordance only in the case of @entity5 (kappa = 0.84). CONCLUSIONS: We found in our study that the main cause of @entity204 in type-2 diabetics was @entity65 (47.7%), while in the Civil Registry mortality for this reason is clearly lower, which leads us to question the validity of the official statistics. This suggests we should insist even more on the importance of monitoring cardiovascular risk factors.

[Statistics and causes of mortality in type-2 XXXX ].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'PATIENTS', 'people'] @entity6 :: ('MESH:D003920', 'Disease') :: ['diabetes'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['neoplasm', 'neoplasms'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['death'] @entity65 :: ('MESH:D002318', 'Disease') :: ['cardiovascular disease']
@entity6 :: (MESH:D003920,Disease) :: ['diabetes']
