The sum of diabetes and heart disease reduces life expectancy to half
In an analysis carried out on almost 1.2 million participants and more than 135,000 deaths, it follows that people who have diabetes and cardiovascular disease see their risk of death almost folded.
In an article published in "Jama", researchers at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) analyzed the reduction in life expectancy associated with the presence of two or more diseases of this type.Their results showed that, compared to participants who had no history of any of these diseases (diabetes mellitus, stroke or infarction), those who presented one of these disorders recorded a death rate almost double;four times Mayos if two diseases coincided, and about eight times if he had all three.
"Our results emphasize the importance of adopting measures to prevent cardiovascular disease in people who already have diabetes and, on the other hand, avoid diabetes in people who already suffer from cardiovascular disease," the authors write.
10 years less
For example, at the age of 60, a story of two of these disorders was associated with 12 years of less life expectancy and a story of three of these diseases, was linked to 15 years of life expectancy less.Researchers estimated even greater reductions in life expectancy in patients with multimorbility at earlier ages, such as 23 years of life in patients with three pathologies at the age of 40.
The authors underline that their results highlight the need to balance primary prevention and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.«About 1% of the participants in the studied cohorts presented cardiometabolic multimorbility compared to an estimate of 3% of recent surveys in the United States.At this time, there are about 10 million adults in the US and in the European Union with cardiometabolic multimorbility, ”they warn.