Late adulthood mortality among African-American and white American people with Type 1 diabetes according to age at diabetes diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To estimate the overall and cause-specific mortality in a population of African-Americans and white Americans with a low socio-economic status who had young-onset insulin-treated diabetes and had survived beyond the age of 40 years, and to examine whether any excess risk varied according to age at diabetes onset.

Methods

Using the Southern Community Cohort Study, we conducted a mortality follow-up of a cohort of mostly low-income participants aged 40-79 years (mean 50 years) at cohort entry with insulin-treated diabetes diagnosed before age 30 years (n=475) and without diabetes (n=62 266). Childhood onset was defined as diabetes diagnosed before age 20 years (n=162), while young-adulthood onset was defined as diabetes diagnosed between ages 20 and 29 years (n=313). Caus

SUBMITTER: Conway BN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5949256 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature