�New figures by the Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory reveal that more than one in ten (11.6 per cent) deaths among 20 to 79-year-olds in England can be attributed to diabetes.
If current trends continue, one in ashcan School (12.2 per cent) deaths among 20 to 79-year-olds volition be attributable to the condition by 2010. This work is based on data that shows adults under 80 with diabetes are approximately twice as likely to die as those without the consideration and women with diabetes have a greater increased risk of death compared to their male counterparts.
Biggest health challenge
"These new figures are truly alarming and confirm that diabetes is one of the biggest health challenges facing the UK today," Douglas Smallwood, Chief Executive of Diabetes UK. "There are currently 2.3 million people diagnosed with diabetes and more than half a million people ar unaware they have the condition.
"Good self-management, sentience, and improved access to specialist diabetes care services are all-important if we are to curb this growing health crisis and see a reduction in the number of people dying from diabetes and complications attributed to the condition."
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) with the highest percentage of diabetes-attributable deaths are areas with a higher than average balance of the population over 40 and where in that respect are turgid numbers of over 40s of Asian and Black origin, world Health Organization are at greater jeopardy of development Type 2 diabetes. These areas too have high levels of deprivation compared to PCTs with the lowest proportion of deaths.
The percentage of diabetes-attributable deaths varied at PCT point from 9 per penny in Buckinghamshire to 17 per cent in Newham, East London.
Data method
By using a method acting that combines data from previous enquiry studies and estimates of diabetes prevalence with population and mortality rate data, the work is able to provide a more accurate picture of the identification number of deaths attributable to diabetes than from turn sources which often give out to identify diabetes or diabetes-related complications as the principal campaign of death.
Whilst still around twice as likely to die as their peers without the condition, the number of deaths in the younger age groups is small compared to the older age groups.
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