Death rate decreasing

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Good news.

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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. "

[Guest guest]

A study I think has it right. It makes sense. Most of us who have had diabetes

for a number of years (especially those of us who got it before the age of

self-testing meters) can probably attest to their own improvement in their

diabetic care.

Dave

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Death rate decreasing

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. "