“…Because subjects who were examined were survivors, and if Hispanic mortality from NIDDM differs from the mortality of non-Hispanic whites, there could be different patterns of complications in all Hispanic diabetic subjects that went undetected. We are not aware of case-fatality data for Hispanics with diabetes, however, among younger blacks with IDDM, excess mortality has been reported when compared with whites (33). In our study subjects, physician visits (5.8/person/yr for Hispanics and 4.9/ person/yr for non-Hispanic whites, P = 0.09) and hospitalization frequency (1.7 and 1.5% for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, respectively, P = 0.48) did not differ significantly by ethnicity, suggesting that differential medical care access is not a problem.…”