June 29, 2016

Association between socioeconomic status and mortality in diabetics

By: Judy Mathias
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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.

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