High fat diet and death rate of diabetes mellitus.

In general, the incidence of diabetes mellitus is high in societies that consume little carbohydrate and is low in countries where carbohydrate consumption is high. Himsworth reported that the consumption of the diet might be an influential factor in the etiology of diabetes mellitus and the high fat consumption was most closely related with high mortality rate of diabetes(1). In this study, we studied the correlation between composition of food, especially fat, and the crude or the age-adjusted death rates of diabetes mellitus.