[kidvid]

Where can I access accurate stats on T1? Like mortality rates, prevalence, incidence, costs, etc. I can't find good sources that keep T1 and T2 separate...

Thanks,

Joe

[JediSkipdogg]

Good luck on that. And the major problem is, no major studies have been done since the early 90s looking at diabetes. There are many smaller studies completed, but sometimes their evidence contradicts each other based on who is doing the study.

[REDLAN]

dunno why you want this stuff but for USA incidence and prevalence there is this link

Prevalence and Incidence of Type 1 diabetes - WrongDiagnosis.com

about 1 in 800 have type 1 in the USA, and 1 person in 10,000 approx will develop type 1 each year.

for mortality there is this

Mortality Trends in Type 1 Diabetes: The Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Registry 1965-1999 -- Nishimura et al. 24 (5): 823 -- Diabetes Care

it's the mortality rates among the 1,000 people with type 1 from Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) - diagnosed between 1965 and 1979 - the study was done in 1999, and is about as recent as you'll get.

it shows that mortality rates are declining - I assume because diabetes care has improved - but then there is a general decline in mortality right across the board, so I'm not sure what this means.

for some more discussion on mortality here is a PDF which includes the allegheny county study

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pub.../chapter10.pdf

three cheers for the power of Google (",)

[BriOnH]

This is one of the reasons for diabuddies.

[BlueSky]

Originally Posted by REDLAN

... for some more discussion on mortality here is a PDF which includes the allegheny county study

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pub.../chapter10.pdf

....

Interesting document. Especially the bit about no deaths having been due to hypoglycemia in the 23 years of follow up in the allegheny county study. Heart disease becomes by far the main cause of death for people with 30+ years of IDDM. And it is particularly interesting to note that there is no reported association between cholesterol levels and cardiovasular mortality amongst people with IDDM.....

[REDLAN]

it is particularly interesting to note that there is no reported association between cholesterol levels and cardiovasular mortality amongst people with IDDM

that's been the case amongst the general population, and has been known about for some time.

perhaps the most famous heart study the Framingham which has been running for goodness knows how long has not shown a correlation between cholesterol levels and mortality.

actually this isn't entirely true...

below age 50 in men there is a correlation between CV deaths and cholesterol levels. It's not large, but it is there. Above 50 this association disappears, and there is actually a slight negative correlation i.e. higher cholesterol levels are protective.

I know it's radical, but maybe cholesterol transport is not as significant in the development of CV disease as everyone would like to believe...

...maybe it has more to do with your risk of thrombus (blood clot) formation - a thrombus forming above an atheromatous plaque is the event that precipitates a heart attack after all.

but then what do I know?