Open AccessMortality and coronary heart disease in diabetes mellitus
Author(s) -
McCann Vincent J.,
Knuiman Matthew W.,
Stanton Kim G.,
Winter Michael G.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1035-7319
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1994.tb00202.x
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , coronary heart disease , confidence interval , blood pressure , cardiology , proportional hazards model , population , coronary disease , framingham risk score , type 2 diabetes , disease , endocrinology , environmental health
A clinic‐based study of 1063 patients with Type 2 diabetes recruited from 1973 to 1982 identified 533 deaths (attributed to coronary heart disease in 268 cases) by 31 December 1989. When compared to the general population of Australia the overall standardised mortality ratio was 1.42 (95 per cent confidence interval (CI) 1.26 to 1.58) for females and 1.19 (CI 1.03 to 1.35) for males. Cox regression analysis showed that having coronary heart disease or absence of foot pulses at the time of entrance to the study were the major independent risk factors for overall mortality after adjustment for initial age. Elevated cholesterol and blood pressure were found to be major independent risk factors for death from coronary heart disease.