[acb-diabetics] Death rate decreasing

[Patricia LaFrance-Wolf]

Good news.

 

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/steep-fall-in-death-rates-among-dia
betics

 

 

Steep Fall in Death Rates Among Diabetics DIABETES | By NICHOLAS BAKALAR |
May 28, 2012

 

Death rates among people with diabetes have declined substantially in recent
years, according to a survey conducted by researchers at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.

 

Since 1997 the C.D.C. has done five surveys of people with and without
diabetes, each sampling about 107,000 adults. Compared with the 1997-98
figures, 2006 death rates from cardiovascular disease had declined 40
percent and all-cause mortality had declined 23 percent among people with
diabetes, even after the researchers controlled for age and other health
factors. Death rates also declined among those who did not have diabetes,
but the decline was not as steep.

 

The study, in the June issue of Diabetes Care, attributes the progress to
advances in medical care and self-management.

 

But every silver lining has a cloud.

 

"The good thing is that people with diabetes are living longer," said one of
the authors, Sharon Saydah, a senior research scientist with the C.D.C. "But
people with diabetes are at risk for a number of complications -
cardiovascular disease, lower leg amputations, kidney disease, eye problems,
dementia and other kinds of disability. Preventing all of these
complications means that we will have greater health care expenses for
people living with diabetes."

 

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