# T1 mortality rates

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/t1-mortality-rates/224>\
**Category:** T1 Research\
**Tags:** complications, statistics, diabetes-deaths\
**Created:** [March 27, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/t1-mortality-rates/224 "2017-03-27T17:27:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/t1-mortality-rates/224/2 "2017-03-27T19:40:32Z")

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> [@Myths surrounding Diabetes](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/myths-surrounding-diabetes/151/16):
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> Nobody dies of well-managed diabetes

It may have been about 90 years ago, but my grandfather was said to have died from diabetes at age 28. Of course it was under insulination, because insulin was not yet available!

I know, I know…it was certainly not well managed😉

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