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Heart Disease Drops Among Diabetics
Heart Disease Drops Among Diabetics -- Posted by Gumbo on 12-17-04 19:10
Heart Disease Drops Among Diabetics
Although diabetes remains a significant risk factor for cardiac problems,
there has been about a 50 percent decline in the incidence of heart disease
among adult diabetics over the past several decades, according to a new
study.
A team led by Dr. Caroline Fox of the National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute found that between 1950 and 1966, adults with diabetes were about
50 percent more likely to develop heart disease than was the case in an
18-year period that began in 1977.
"The results of our study differ from those previously published, which have
suggested that adults with diabetes have experienced less declines in
cardiovascular disease risk than those without diabetes," the researchers
reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Fox's team turned to data from one of the nation's oldest and
longest-running examinations of heart disease, the institute's Framingham
Heart Study and the follow-up tracking done on offspring of the original
study group.
The researchers looked at the records for 4,118 participants in the 1950s
and '60s, including 113 with diabetes, and 4,063 patients from 1977 through
1995, of whom 317 had diabetes.
Among the diabetics in the earlier period, the heart-disease incidence was
286.4 per 10,000 person-years (people multiplied by the number of years in
the study). The rate for the more recent period was 146.9 per 10,000.
The study also showed that among adults without diabetes there was a similar
but smaller decline (35 percent) in heart-disease rates between the two
periods.
However, researchers stress that the absolute risk of heart disease among
diabetics remains twice greater than among those without the insulin
disorder.
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