In an unanticipated new challenge to improvements, a resurgence of diabetes complications has appeared in national statistics and in the epidemiology literature (JAMA)
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Category: Epidemiology
Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in Ageing and Diverse Populations: A Review of the Literature from the UK
We explored the evidence about diabetes care for older people with South Asian ethnicity to understand the contexts and mechanisms behind interventions to reduce inequalities (Journal of Diabetes Research)
Obesity and Life Expectancy with and without Diabetes in Adults Aged 55 Years and Older in the Netherlands
Obesity in the middle aged and elderly is associated with a reduction in the number of years lived free of diabetes and an increase in the number of years lived with diabetes. Those extra years lived with morbidity might place a high toll on individuals and health care systems (PLoS Medicine)
Diabetes, antidiabetic medications, and pancreatic cancer risk: an analysis from the International Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium
This study provides the most definitive quantification to date of an excess risk of pancreatic cancer among diabetics. It also shows that a 30% excess risk persists for more than two decades after diabetes diagnosis, thus supporting a causal role of diabetes in pancreatic cancer. Oral antidiabetics may decrease the risk of pancreatic cancer, whereas insulin showed an inconsistent duration–risk relationship (Annals of Oncology)
TANDEM: understanding diabetes and tuberculosis
Currently, more than 80% of adults with diabetes live in low-income or middle-income countries, and diabetes generally presents at a younger age in these countries.1 People with diabetes are three times more likely to develop active tuberculosis than are people without diabetes (The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
Per capita sugar consumption and prevalence of diabetes mellitus – global and regional associations
These results indicate independent associations between DM prevalence rates and per capita sugar consumption both worldwide and with special regard to the Asian region (BMC Public Health)
Diabetes & cancer AACE/ACE consensus statement
This document represents the official position of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American College of Endocrinology
Risk of breast cancer by individual insulin use
This international study found no difference in the risk of developing breast cancer in patients with diabetes among the different types of insulin with short- to mid-term duration of use (Diabetes Care)
Excess mortality during hospital stays
A diagnosis of diabetes has an adverse impact on hospital mortality that cannot be explained by usual case-mix adjustments, and the additional risk of dying is greatest among hospital admissions that would normally have a low risk of death. This implies that diabetes may override the usual risk factors for hospital mortality (Diabetic Medicine)
Epidemiology of blindness attributable to diabetes in Scotland
Over the decade 2000–2009, the incidence of blindness attributable to diabetes fell by a mean of 10.6% per year in the population with diabetes (Diabetic Medicine)
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