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Long-term and recent trends in survival and life expectancy for people with type 1 diabetes in Finland by Martti Arffman; Pirjo Hakkarainen; Ilmo Keskimäki; Tuula Oksanen; Reijo Sund is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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Aims Type 1 diabetes has been associated with a significant reduction in life expectancy. Major advances in treatment of type 1 diabetes have been associated with improved survival. However, life expectancy for type 1 diabetes under contemporary care is not known. Methods Health care registers were used to obtain data on all people with type 1 diabetes in Finland in 1964–2017 and their mortality in 1972–2017. Survival analyses were used to study long-term trends in survival and abridged period life table methods to calculate life expectancy estimates. Causes of death were examined to consider development. Results Study data included 42,936 persons with type 1 diabetes and 6,771 deaths. Kaplan-Meier curves showed improved survival during the study period. In 2017, the remaining life expectancy at the age of 20 for a person diagnosed for type 1 diabetes was estimated to be 51.64 (95% CI: 51.51, 51.78) years which was 9.88 (9.74, 10.01) years lower than for the general Finnish population. Conclusions We found improved survival among persons with type 1 diabetes during the last decades. However, their life expectancy remained significantly below that of the general Finnish population.

Author

Martti Arffman; Pirjo Hakkarainen; Ilmo Keskimäki; Tuula Oksanen; Reijo Sund

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN