Impact of diabetes on longevity and disability-free life expectancy among older South African adults: A prospective longitudinal analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We seek to understand the coexisting effects of population aging and a rising burden of diabetes on healthy longevity in South Africa.

Methods

We used longitudinal data from the 2015 and 2018 waves of the "Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa" (HAALSI) study to explore life expectancy (LE) and disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) of adults aged 45 and older with and without diabetes in rural South Africa. We estimated LE and DFLE by diabetes status using Markov-based microsimulation.

Results

We find a clear gradient in remaining LE and DFLE based on diabetes status. At age 45, a man without diabetes could expect to live 7.4 [95% CI 3.4 - 11.7] more years than a man with diabetes, and a woman without diabetes c

SUBMITTER: Payne CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10023447 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature