For the report, NHS Digital analyzed complications and mortality associated with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes for 364,000 English patients ages 35 to 74. Researchers tracked individuals’ care process and health outcomes for seven years, conducting follow up disease audits in 2014 and 2015 to identify any patient deaths.
Here are three report findings.
1. Diabetes patients who consistently attended annual physician visits for the past seven years had half the mortality rate of those who did not.
2. Diabetes patients were 32 percent more likely to die prematurely than the general population.
3. Type 1 diabetes patients had a 128 percent higher additional risk of death than the general population, and Type 2 diabetes patients had a 28 percent higher risk.
To view the full report, click here.
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