We can still reduce the mortality of type 2 diabetes

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Published the 02.01.2018 at 12h23

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Thanks to medical advances, the reduction of the mortality rate of diabetics has been very important in the last fifty years. However, people with diabetes have a higher risk of mortality than persons without diabetes.
German researchers have evaluated the difference in risk between type 2 diabetics and non-diabetics. The mortality of type 2 diabetes is two times higher according to a study published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care.

Risk especially for people with non-diagnosed

Scientists have used data from a national health survey carried out in 1998. They have called back 6979 participants between 2008 and 2011.
Among people aged 45 years or more, the risk of mortality is 1,82 times higher for diabetics type 2, diagnosed or not, compared to non-diabetics. For the undiagnosed, the risk is higher: 1,96 against 1.68 for the diagnosed.

Increase risk in the young

Moreover, this excess mortality is more pronounced is more pronounced among young adults. Similarly, men who were not diagnosed seem, in the light of the results of this study, exposed to a higher risk of mortality.
For the researchers, it is thus necessary to intensify the prevention of diabetes, but also to better support diabetic patients, and in particular young people.

In fact, detection and early treatment of type 2 diabetes would significantly reduce the risk of complications and mortality.