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National Diabetes Audit: Complications & Mortality Report

Yes it is assuming diabetic men are more active than diabetic women, thats why I wished mo good luck lol. But if men are equally active, men have a natural advantage due to more muscle mass so would applyeven then as having more muscle doing an activity is also a bonus.

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Hey, I'm not saying I'm right or anything ! It's just a suggestion ! May have nothing to do with it but we all know that exercise helps lower BG levels and I would guess that statistically men do more labour intensive and active occupations. Again, there are always exceptions !


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SamJB said:
  • The cholesterol plot is very interesting too. It seems a low cholesterol, particularly for Type 2s, below 3 is bad for mortality. A cholesterol level following a complication event that gives the best mortality rate is 4.1-5.0 for both Types.
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But shouldn't come as a surprise considering that hypocholesterolemia is a risk factor for all sorts of things in humans. With the "target" of <4.0 mmol/l being hypocholesterolemic.
 
Thank you for the stats and interpretation Sam. Very interesting if a little depressing!

In answer to some of the comments, I think men are more active, they have less hormonal issues to deal with in terms of diabetes control and - don't shoot me here - they are more selfish. Women are far more likely to put the family, kids etc before their own health.

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Yep, not meaning the post to be sexist.
I've had my eyes opened to the diabulimia on this website. I'm a type 1 and thank god it never entered my head at that age to not take insulin.


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One possible reason for worse outcomes in T1 women.
One in three women of all ages with T1 are thought to omit insulin to some degree. Of these about 8% report frequent omission . The mortality rate and complication rate is higher , even with those who do it occasionally , than those who don't restrict it.( There is a 3 fold higher mortality rate in the case of those who omit insulin frequently)
The studies are all on women and though there is no doubt that it affects some men, (who may hide it even more than women) I think that this is far more common in women .edit: found an article that says the male:female ratio in diabulimia is 1:10
http://www.pediatricnews.com/rss-fe...bulimia/538e84d0b503e3a4743183a1d9662afe.html


Re the rest of Europe, I think that many other countries will have similar data. I can find the French data though it's not nearly as straightforward to read as that from the UK. There is Europe wide data on standardised death rates due to diabetes though I don't know how comparable the data from each country actually is.
The UK actually has a lower death rate from DM than most of the rest of Europe.
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tg...gin=1&pcode=tps00137&language=en&toolbox=sort
 
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