ArticleBiodemography and social biology2018
Effect of Diabetes on Life Expectancy in the United States by Race and Ethnicity.
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- Screening for Prediabetes and Diabetes in a National Network of Federally Qualified Health Centers: An Observational Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Observational
- Screening for Prediabetes and Diabetes: Clinical Performance and Implications for Health Equity.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes vary by ethnicity among U.S. Asian adults at healthy weight, overweight, and obesity ranges: an electronic health record study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Mortality differentials by previous diagnosis of diabetes and glycemic status in the United States.Journal of diabetes and its complications · 2022Article
- Bayesian Multistate Life Table Methods for Large and Complex State Spaces: Development and Illustration of a New Method.Sociological methodology · 2022Article
- The GenoDiabMar Registry: A Collaborative Research Platform of Type 2 Diabetes Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Association of Major Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases and Life Expectancy in China, 2019.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Multimorbidity and catastrophic health expenditure among patients with diabetes in China: a nationwide population-based study.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Factors Affecting the Reception of Self-Management Health Education: A Cross-Sectional Survey Assessing Perspectives of Lower-Income Seniors with Cardiovascular Conditions.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- A Pharmacist and Health Coach-Delivered Mobile Health Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Crossover Study.JMIR research protocols · 2021Article
- The Significant Association between Health Examination Results and Population Health: A Cross-Sectional Ecological Study Using a Nation-Wide Health Checkup Database in Japan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Regional differences in the impact of diabetes on population health in the USA.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2021Article
- Mortality from diabetes mellitus and its impact on life expectancy at 60 years of age in Mexico.Revista de saude publica · 2021Observational
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Abstract
We investigated the impact of diabetes on US life expectancy by sex and race/ethnicity using a prospective cohort study design. Cohorts were drawn from 1997-2009 waves of the National Health Interview Survey and linked to death records through December 31, 2011. We combined data on the prevalence of diabetes among decedents with estimates of the hazard ratios of individuals diagnosed with diabetes to calculate population attributable fractions (PAFs) by age, sex, and race/ethnicity at ages 30 and above. These estimates were then applied to deaths in the official US life table for 2010 to estimate effects of diabetes on life expectancy. Diabetes was responsible for a reduction of 0.83 years of life expectancy for men at age 30 and 0.89 years for 30-year-old women. The impact was greatest among Black women at 1.05 years. Estimates based on traditional demographic and actuarial methods using the frequency with which a disease appears as an underlying cause of death on death certificates produced a reduction in life expectancy at age 30 of only 0.33 years. We conclude that diabetes is substantially reducing US longevity and that its effect is seriously underestimated when using data on underlying causes of death.
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