Extra Risk of Dying from Diabetes Reduces in UK and Canada

According to a new study, the extra risk of dying from diabetes has reduced in the UK and Canada since the mid-1990s. The study was published in the journal Diabetologia. The study was conducted by Lorraine Lipscombe, an endocrinologist at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Canada, and Marcus Lind, of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and colleagues.


They studied the current mortality rates in millions with diabetes in comparison to patients with diabetes. Moreover, they figured out how they had changed overtime.
The findings revealed that the gap in death risk between those with and without diabetes has narrowed substantially.

As per a previous review, diabetes increases the chances of death by 80%. However, the review was based on studies conducted before 2000.
The new figures have revealed that between 1996 and 2009, the extra risk of dying because of diabetes, including both Type 1 and Type 2, declined from 90% to 51% in Canada and from, 114% to 65% in the U. K.

The decline was same for all the age groups and there was no significant difference between the sexes in 2009. Dr. Alasdair Rankin, director of research for Diabetes UK, said the study has come up with positive results and improvement in medical care for diabetes, but still there is a long way to go.