Jan 31
Read this article.. The number of older Americans diagnosed with diabetes every year went up by 23 per cent in the decade leading up to 2003-2004, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine carried out by researchers at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
The annual incidence of diabetes increased by 23 per cent between 1994-1995 and 2003-2004.
Prevalence increased by 62 per cent.
Surprisingly, the rate of death after diagnosis in people having diagnosed diabetes decreased by 8.3 per cent compared with that in the control groups.
Complication rates among people diagnosed with diabetes generally increased or stayed the same compared with those in the control groups during 1994 to 2004. The exception was diabetes-related eye diseases.
Rates for some major complications were high.
One example of this was the rate for congestive heart failure in the diabetes group during 1999 to 2004, which was 475 per 1000 persons.
In some cases, such as kidney problems, including the most serious complications, there were increases in prevalence in both the diabetes and control groups.
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