DOC News March 1, 2006
Volume 3 Number 3 p. 18
© 2006 American Diabetes Association
CVD Declining in Diabetic Patients
The news in cardiovascular disease (CVD) for people with type 2 diabetes is
good and bad. A new report, published in the January issue of Diabetes
Care, suggests that the rate of CVD-related complications is declining.
But because the number of people with diabetes continues to rise, in absolute
terms the number of CVD cases will keep increasing.
A group of investigators in Ontario, Canada, retrospectively reviewed
insurance claims from throughout the province for the 8-year period
1992–2000. Overall, CVD-related rates improved more among people with
diabetes than among those in the general population. For people with diabetes,
the rate of admission for heart attack or stroke fell 15%, and fatalities from
heart attack and stroke fell 44%.
In fact, the rate of death from any cause decreased during the study period
for people with diabetes.
However, during the same period the number of people with diabetes
increased from 405,471 to 670,602. The total number of CVD-related events
among the general population of the province rose significantly, with heart
attack cases rising 44.6%, strokes up 26%, and stroke deaths up >17%.
Booth GL, Kapral MK, Fung K, et al.: Recent trends in
cardiovascular complications among men and women with and without diabetes.
Diabetes Care 29:32–37, 2006.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
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