Impact of the association between education and obesity on diabetes-free life expectancy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The purpose of the study was to quantify the association between body weight and health by estimating the expected lifetime with and without diabetes (diabetes-free life expectancy) at age 30 and 65. In addition, the diabetes-free life expectancy was stratified by educational level.

Methods

Life tables by sex, level of education and obese/not obese were constructed using nationwide register data and self-reported data on body weight and height and diabetes from the Danish National Health Survey in 2021. Diabetes-free life expectancies were estimated by Sullivan's method.

Results

The difference in life expectancy between not obese 30-year-old men with a long and a short education was 5.7 years. For not obese women, the difference was 4.1 years. For obese men

SUBMITTER: Bronnum-Hansen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710352 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature