Alcohol consuming diabetic shows high death rate.

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Survival rates in patients with early-onset type 1 diabetes have improved in recent years, whereas survival in patients with late-onset type 1 diabetes has become worse since the 1980s. The trend appears to be a result of increases in drug- and alcohol-related deaths in patients with late-onset type 1 diabetes. The results were reported in a study published online September 8 in the *British Medical Journal*.

Advances in the care of type 1 diabetes have been made in recent years, but patients continue to suffer from increased mortality because of acute and chronic complications.

In theory, later age of onset of type 1 diabetes may be associated with decreased mortality. Those with onset after age 15 have lower risk for diabetic nephropathy and end-stage renal disease compared with patients with onset during adolescence. “Better long term survival could thus be expected in people diagnosed as having diabetes after adolescence,” the researchers state. “However, most of the studies of mortality have been done in patients with onset of diabetes in childhood or the age at onset has not been the focus of the analyses.”

Ref and Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749453?sssdmh=dm1.717798&src=nldne

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