Men’s Diabetes Death Rate Cut
WASHINGTON – The death rate for U.S. men with diabetes has fallen sharply since the early 1970s even as more people develop the disease, but women aren’t making the same progress, researchers said.
The study didn’t look at why, but the researchers said women may not be getting the same care for heart disease as men. Diabetes, the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., greatly raises the risk of heart disease.
Researchers tracked about 27,000 people ages 35 to 74 in three national databases during three-time periods running from 1971 to 2000.
Death rates from all cases for men with diabetes dropped 42.6 per 1,000 people annually from 1971 to 1986, to 24.4 per 1,000 in the period from 1988 to 2000, the study found. Their deaths from cardiovascular disease, the biggest killer of diabetics, fell significantly.
“Among men we see very encouraging trends in death rates among the diabetic population,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Edward Gregg, lead author of the study, said in a telephone interview. The research was published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
In diabetes, the body fails to produce or properly use insulin, a hormone needed to turn sugar, starches and other food into energy. It is a leading cause of heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and amputations.
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