Diabetes increases the risk of developing heart disease, which can reduce the life expectancy.
Diabetes mellitus is a recognised risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality. However, limited information exists on the association of diabetes with life expectancy with and without CVD. Researchers from the University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Unilever Corporate Research, Sharnbrook, UK, conducted a study to analyse the association of diabetes after 50 years of age with life expectancy and the number of years lived with and without CVD.
Using the data from the Framingham Heart Study, they built life tables to calculate the association between diabetes and life expectancy, and the years lived with and without CVD among people who were 50 years and older. For the life table calculations, they used hazard ratios for 3 transitions - healthy to death, healthy to CVD, and CVD to death. The calculations were carried out keeping in mind that diabetes was present at baseline, and adjusting for age and confounders.
It was found that presence of diabetes significantly increased the risk of developing CVD by nearly 2.5 for women and 2.4 for men. It increased the risk of dying when CVD was present by 2.2 in women and 1.7 in men. Diabetic men and women 50 years and older lived an average of 7.5 and 8.2 years less than their non-diabetic equivalents. The differences in life expectancy free of CVD were 7.8 and 8.4 years, respectively.
The findings suggest that the increase in the risk of CVD and mortality from diabetes represents an important decrease in life expectancy and life expectancy free of CVD. Therefore, prevention of diabetes is a fundamental task facing today's society in the pursuit of healthy aging.
Diabetes mellitus is a recognised risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality. However, limited information exists on the association of diabetes with life expectancy with and without CVD. Researchers from the University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Unilever Corporate Research, Sharnbrook, UK, conducted a study to analyse the association of diabetes after 50 years of age with life expectancy and the number of years lived with and without CVD.
Using the data from the Framingham Heart Study, they built life tables to calculate the association between diabetes and life expectancy, and the years lived with and without CVD among people who were 50 years and older. For the life table calculations, they used hazard ratios for 3 transitions - healthy to death, healthy to CVD, and CVD to death. The calculations were carried out keeping in mind that diabetes was present at baseline, and adjusting for age and confounders.
It was found that presence of diabetes significantly increased the risk of developing CVD by nearly 2.5 for women and 2.4 for men. It increased the risk of dying when CVD was present by 2.2 in women and 1.7 in men. Diabetic men and women 50 years and older lived an average of 7.5 and 8.2 years less than their non-diabetic equivalents. The differences in life expectancy free of CVD were 7.8 and 8.4 years, respectively.
The findings suggest that the increase in the risk of CVD and mortality from diabetes represents an important decrease in life expectancy and life expectancy free of CVD. Therefore, prevention of diabetes is a fundamental task facing today's society in the pursuit of healthy aging.
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