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Mortality in Lower Income People With Diabetes Continues to Rise
Globally, diabetes is associated with a two-fold increase in mortality, with most of those deaths due to cardiovascular issues. Survival for people with diabetes has improved over the last 10 years, partly because of better diabetes care and a reduction in cardiovascular events.
The study looked at data from Ontario, Canada from 1995 to 2006. The number of Ontarians aged 30 years or older with diabetes rose 130% while the non diabetes population in Ontario rose 17% over the same period. Death rates were significantly higher in men than in women and in people aged 65 and older compared with younger people.
Age- and sex-standardized mortality fell by 33% across all income groups but the higher income groups experienced a larger decline in mortality than the lowest income group (36% versus 31%). In people aged 30-64 years, there was a more than 40% widening in the rate ratio (from 1.1 to 1.6) between the poorest versus the richest group.
"Our findings suggest that improvements in diabetes outcomes may be lagging in the poorer segments of the diabetic population," write Dr. Lorraine Lipscombe of Women's College Hospital in Toronto and coauthors.
They suggest several reasons for these findings. Increasing costs of medications may be limiting access and compromising care for people who cannot afford medications. In people aged 65 and over, income had a much smaller effect on mortality as drug costs are subsidized for this age group. Lower health literacy in poorer patients may be hindering their ability to follow complicated medical routines.
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