Prevalence and treatment of diabetes mellitus and hypertension among older adults with intellectual disability in comparison with the general population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which is the most common cause of death in the world. People with intellectual disability (ID) have been reported to have high rates of both these disorders. The aim of this study was to describe and compare prevalence ratios of diabetes mellitus and hypertension between older adults with ID and their age peers in the general population, and to describe and compare treatment patterns in these two groups.

Methods

This is a Swedish register-based study, in which we established a cohort of people aged 55+ years and who had received support for those with ID in 2012 (n = 7936). We also established a same-sized referent cohort from the general population matched by sex and year of birth. In

SUBMITTER: Axmon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5701367 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature