11/18/2021    

RELEVANT RESEARCH

Diabetes Complications Affect Different Ethnic Groups Unevenly: Study

 

Professor and researcher of the Faculty of Nursing and Podiatry of the University of Valencia (UV), Yasmín Ezzatvar, together with researchers from other centers, concludes that the racial or ethnic group of patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus influences the prognosis of the disease, due to differences in mortality, risk of kidney disease or risk of cardiovascular disease. In their research, they analyzed data from 2,416,516 diagnosed people. This is the first study to quantify these differences.

 

Prof. Yasmín Ezzatvar

 

The study indicates that, compared to white people, those of Maori ethnicity had an 88 percent higher risk of mortality from all causes, Hispanic-American patients have a lower risk of suffering from macrovascular complications of diabetes such as cardiovascular disease, and Black people have a 54 percent increased risk of end-stage renal disease. No differences have been found in the risk of other complications, such as amputations, among people of other racial or ethnic groups.

 

Source: Asociacion RUVID via MedicalXPress [11/15/21]