OBJECTIVE To examine trends in fatal coronary heart disease in adults with and without diabetes. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Two surveys of the Nord-Trøndelag health study (HUNT), a population based study in Norway. PARTICIPANTS 74 914 men and women from the first survey (1984-6) and 64 829 from the second survey (1995-7). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Age specific mortality from coronary heart...

INTRODUCTION Recent studies indicate an increased risk of colorectal cancer in people with diabetes. However, people with diabetes may have lower colorectal cancer screening rates than people without diabetes. Few data are available regarding factors associated with lack of screening for people with diabetes. Our objective was to describe factors associated with lack of timely colorectal cancer...

BACKGROUND Empowerment of people with diabetes means integrating diabetes with identity. However, others' stigmatization can influence it. Although diabetes is so prevalent among Iranians, there is little knowledge about diabetes-related stigma in Iran. The present study explored diabetes-related stigma in people living with type 1 diabetes in Isfahan. MATERIALS AND METHODS A conventional con...

OBJECTIVE In vitro evidence shows that immune function is compromised in people with diabetes. Although certain rare infections are more common and infection-related mortality is higher, the risk of acquiring an infectious disease for diabetic patients has never been quantified. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A retrospective cohort study using administrative data compared all people with diabete...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence and relationship of retinopathy lesions in older subjects without diabetes to systemic hypertension. METHODS Three thousand six hundred fifty-four people aged 49 years or older attending the Blue Mountains Eye Study underwent a detailed eye examination, including medical history, blood pressure measurement, and fasting blood collection. Retinopathy lesions (...

BACKGROUND Representative data on the secular trends in cardiovascular disease (CVD) are limited in Asian populations with diabetes. We aimed to estimate the temporal trends in cardiovascular complications using Korean nationwide whole population-based claims data in subjects with and without diabetes. METHODS Type 2 diabetes was defined as a current medication history of anti-diabetic drugs ...

BACKGROUND Physical activity has been associated with lower cardiovascular mortality in people with diabetes, but how diabetes severity influence this association has not been extensively studied. METHODS We prospectively examined the joint association of diabetes severity, measured as medical treatment status and disease duration, and physical exercise with cardiovascular mortality. A total ...

INTRODUCTION Although screening rates for colorectal cancer are increasing, 22 million Americans are not up-to-date with recommendations. People with diabetes are an important and rapidly growing group at increased risk for colorectal cancer. Screening status and predictors of being up-to-date on screening are largely unknown in this population. METHODS This study used logistic regression mod...

One major objective of the St. Vincent Declaration was to reduce excess risk of stroke in people with diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study is to estimate the trend of incidence and relative risk of stroke in the diabetic and the non-diabetic populations in Germany over a 17-year period. We estimated age-sex standardised incidence rates of all stroke and ischaemic stroke in people with and w...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the history of previous depression in people with incident diabetes compared with people without diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a population-based nested case-control study using the administrative databases of Saskatchewan Health to assess the study objective. We identified cases of type 2 diabetes based on diagnostics cod...