Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death

Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai, Stephen Kaptoge, Alexander Thompson, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Pei Gao, Nadeem Sarwar, Peter H Whincup, Kenneth J Mukamal, Richard F Gillum, Ingar Holme, Inger Njølstad, Astrid Fletcher, Carl Martin Peter Nilsson, Sarah Lewington, Rory Collins, Vilmundur Gudnason, Simon G Thompson, Naveed Sattar, Elizabeth Selvin, Frank B HuJohn Danesh, Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Marianne Benn, Marianne Benn

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    Abstract

    BACKGROUND: The extent to which diabetes mellitus or hyperglycemia is related to risk of death from cancer or other nonvascular conditions is uncertain. METHODS: We calculated hazard ratios for cause-specific death, according to baseline diabetes status or fasting glucose level, from individual-participant data on 123,205 deaths among 820,900 people in 97 prospective studies. RESULTS: After adjustment for age, sex, smoking status, and body-mass index, hazard ratios among persons with diabetes as compared with persons without diabetes were as follows: 1.80 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.71 to 1.90) for death from any cause, 1.25 (95% CI, 1.19 to 1.31) for death from cancer, 2.32 (95% CI, 2.11 to 2.56) for death from vascular causes, and 1.73 (95% CI, 1.62 to 1.85) for death from other causes. Diabetes (vs. no diabetes) was moderately associated with death from cancers of the liver, pancreas, ovary, colorectum, lung, bladder, and breast. Aside from cancer and vascular disease, diabetes (vs. no diabetes) was also associated with death from renal disease, liver disease, pneumonia and other infectious diseases, mental disorders, nonhepatic digestive diseases, external causes, intentional self-harm, nervous-system disorders, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Hazard ratios were appreciably reduced after further adjustment for glycemia measures, but not after adjustment for systolic blood pressure, lipid levels, inflammation or renal markers. Fasting glucose levels exceeding 100 mg per deciliter (5.6 mmol per liter), but not levels of 70 to 100 mg per deciliter (3.9 to 5.6 mmol per liter), were associated with death. A 50-year-old with diabetes died, on average, 6 years earlier than a counterpart without diabetes, with about 40% of the difference in survival attributable to excess nonvascular deaths. CONCLUSIONS: In addition to vascular disease, diabetes is associated with substantial premature death from several cancers, infectious diseases, external causes, intentional self-harm, and degenerative disorders, independent of several major risk factors. (Funded by the British Heart Foundation and others.)

    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftNew England Journal of Medicine
    Vol/bind364
    Udgave nummer9
    Sider (fra-til)829-41
    Antal sider13
    ISSN0028-4793
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 3 mar. 2011

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