为了解老年人糖尿病（DM）患病情况、分布特点,探索造成糖尿病的易患因素,做到早防、早治,我院于1996年夏末,在本县对60岁以上的自然人群进行了糖尿病患病的调查统计,现将调查结果报告如下。1 对象和方法1.1 地点及对象:在沂水县境内采用“梅花点”式设计调查区域,采取整群抽样的方法,调查了该县31个乡镇的38个自然村60岁以上老年人1852人,调查对象包括农民、退休工人、退离休干部（军人）、教 In order to understand the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and its distribution in elderly people, we explore the predisposing factors for diabetes and achieve early prevention and early treatment. In our hospital, in the late summer of 1996, we conducted natural population age 60 and over in our county Survey of the prevalence of diabetes statistics, the findings are reported as follows. 1 Subjects and methods 1.1 Location and object: In the county of Yishui using “plum blossom” design survey area, the method of cluster sampling, the survey of 38 villages in 31 towns and 3852 villages over the age of 1852, The survey includes peasants, retired workers, retired cadres (military), teaching