Mortality and incidence of renal replacement therapy in people with type 1 diabetes mellitus--a three decade long prospective observational study in the Lainz T1DM cohort.

Context And Objective: We investigated long term mortality, requirement for renal replacement therapy (RRT), and incidence of other late diabetic complications in an observational cohort study of 641 people with type 1 diabetes (T1DM).

Design: Prospective observational cohort study.

Setting: The study was conducted at a Tertiary Diabetes Centre in Vienna, Austria.