Diabetes Hastens Death for Older Women
At least one other large drugmaker – Bayer AG also scrapped plans to sell a diabetes device unit this year. In the past few months, Roche was looking to sell the business as the industry faced increased competition and lower reimbursement rates from U.S. government healthcare programs, people familiar with the matter told Reuters in May. .
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Those who had diabetes at the time of enrollment typically had more comorbid conditions, had higher body mass index, engaged in less activity, and had poorer quality diets than those without diabetes. The total percentages of women with diabetes, either prevalent or incident, by the cutoff point of August 2009 were 27.1% among black women, 20.8% for Hispanics, 15.9% among Asians, and 11.7% for white women. In addition to all-cause mortality, similar risks across racial/ethnic groups were found for cardiovascular mortality and cancer death after adjustment for multiple factors including socioeconomic status, hypertension, hormone use, and smoking. For cardiovascular death, the HRs for whites and blacks were 2.87 (95% CI 2.57-3.20) and 2.65 (95% CI 2.10-3.35), respectively, while they were 3.05 (95% CI 1.66-5.61) for Hispanics and 2.26 (95% CI 1.14-4.46) for Asians. For deaths from cancer, the HRs among the four groups were 1.44 (95% CI 1.27-1.62) for whites, 1.38 (95% CI 1.05-1.81) for blacks, 2.13 (95% CI 1.30-3.47) for Hispanics, and 2.06 (95% CI 1.09-3.88) for Asians. The researchers then calculated the population attributable risk percentages, which reflects both the disease prevalence and mortality risk, with these results for all-cause mortality: Whites: 11.1 (95% 10.1-12.1) Asians: 12.9 (95% CI 4.7-20.9) Blacks: 19.4 (95% CI 15-23.7) Hispanics: 23.2 (95% CI 14.8-31.2) For cardiovascular disease mortality, the population attributable risk percentages were highest for Hispanics at 30.6 (95% CI 8.7-49.7) and blacks at 25.9 (95% CI 17.8-33.7), and for cancer the risk percentages were highest for Hispanics and Asians, but the confidence intervals overlapped.
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