Black and Hispanic women have much higher rates of diabetes than Asian or white women, but death rates for related conditions such as heart disease and cancer are the same for all older women in the United States regardless of race or ethnicity, according to a new study.
The findings show that diabetes prevention is the key to reducing rates of diabetes-related deaths among all postmenopausal women, according to the University of Massachusetts Medical School researchers.
They analyzed data collected from more than 158,000 women, average age 63, between 1993 and 2008. Diabetes rates were about 27 percent for blacks, 21 percent for Hispanics, 16 percent for Asians and 12 percent for whites.
Regardless of race and ethnicity, all of the women with diabetes were two to three times more likely to die from heart disease, cancer or other causes than those without diabetes, according to the study, which was published online Sept. 16 in the American Journal of Epidemiology. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_140746.html
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