Association between socioeconomic status and mortality in diabetics

Editor's Note

In this study, researchers examined whether income, educational level, marital status, and country of birth were independently associated with all cause cardiovascular, diabetes-related, and cancer mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Results showed that independent of risk factors and access to/use of healthcare, socioeconomic status was a powerful predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, but it was not as a predictor of death from cancer in diabetics.

A total of 217, 364 patients were included in the study from Sweden.

Importance The association between socioeconomic status and survival based on all-cause, cardiovascular (CV), diabetes-related, and cancer mortality in type 2 diabetes has not been examined in a setting of persons with equitable access to health care with adjustment for important confounders.