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Friday, 21 June 2013

Diabetes: Excess deaths well down, study indicates.

The extra risk of dying for people with diabetes has fallen sharply since the mid 1990s, research suggests.

It found in 2009 people with diabetes were 1.5 times more likely to die than those without it in a given period - down from two times as likely in 1996. The study, in journal Diabetologia covering millions of Canadian and UK patients, concludes this may be due to better treatment and earlier diagnosis. Diabetes UK says thousands of patients are still dying prematurely every year. Since the mid 1990s the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK has climbed from fewer than one and a half million to three million.

The disease and its often-fatal complications - including heart disease, stroke and kidney failure - pose a huge and growing challenge for the NHS.

But this study points to progress in cutting deaths. In the mid 1990s, it suggests, people with diabetes were almost twice as likely to die in a given period as those without the disease. By 2009, it indicates, that figure had fallen to about one and a half times the risk.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Diabetes deaths down good news.
Diabetes still on the increase bad news.Still more needs to be done to redress this gloomy situation.

Joe

Anonymous said...

"Still more needs to be done to redress this gloomy situation." I agree Joe, and the great shame too is that diabetes is now found in more young people than it was years ago.At what age will these die?

Jeanne

Anonymous said...

We should appreciate deaths are well down but yes so much more needs to be done, as deaths will reflect those in a lower age group

Paul B

Lowcarb team member said...

Hi Paul

The early death rate could be halved or more if all diabetics reduced the carbs and followed a healthy diet. So many healthcare pros are obsessed with carbs and trying to cover them with medication. The NHS stats prove year after year the eat carbs with every meal dogma has failed totally. When will they learn ?

Eddie