A Twofold Excess Mortality Among Black Compared With White IDDM Patients in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Author:

Tull Eugene S1,Barinas Emma1,

Affiliation:

1. Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Abstract

OBJECTIVE To examine the long-term mortality experience of blacks who develop IDDM in childhood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The 11–25-year mortality status of individuals with IDDM who participated in the Diabetes Epidemiology Research International (DERI) Mortality Study was verified as of 1 January 1990 for 1,008 (94%) of the 1,076 individuals in the study. Life-table analysis was performed, and race-specific rates were determined for the final sample. RESULTS Among black patients, 14.9% died compared with 6.6% of the white patients after a maximum of 25 years of follow-up. African-Americans experienced an age-adjusted mortality rate that was over twice that of whites for the entire period (9.4 vs. 3.8 per 1,000 person-years, respectively; P < 0.05) and at each 5-year interval of follow-up. Among blacks, the mortality rate for females (15.9/1,000 person-years) was 8.4 times (P < 0.05) that of males (1.9/1,000 person-years). In contrast, this sex difference was not seen among whites. Acute complications of diabetes accounted for 40% of the mortality in the black patients, while only 23% of the white patients died from acute causes. CONCLUSIONS The data suggest that some of the excess mortality in black IDDM patients may be preventable.

Publisher

American Diabetes Association

Subject

Advanced and Specialized Nursing,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Internal Medicine

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