Table 2 Causes of death of 38 patients died during a median of 18 years follow-up time of 139 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Cardiovascular

32 (14/18)

Cardiac arrest

8 (3/5)

MI

12 (5/7)

Heart failure

3 (2/1)

Stroke

9 (4/5)

Malignancy

2(0/2)

Lung cancer

1 (0/1)

Uterus cancer

1 (0/1)

Sepsis

2(0/2)

Acute hypoglycemia

1(1/0)

Suicide

1(0/1)

Total

38(15/23)