Type 1 diabetes: control and complications trials

Published on August 31, 2015   44 min

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JOHN PETRIE: I'm John Petrie. I'm professor of diabetic medicine at the University of Glasgow in the UK. This presentation is about Type 1 Diabetes, Control and Complications Trials.
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The complications of diabetes that have been established over many years are shown on the left-hand side of this slide, and the more recently recognized ones are on the right. The complications that we will be focusing on today are those of myocardial infarction and stroke, sometimes known as the macrovascular complications, which can also include peripheral vascular disease.
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The slide here shows a study by Krolewski, which compared the rates of mortality in the Pittsburgh cohort of people with type 1 diabetes, with those in the Framingham cohort, looking at mortality over different age groups. And from this slide, published in 1987, you can see that the rates of mortality in people with type 1 diabetes were very high. And this was mainly due to coronary artery disease in comparison with non-diabetic, healthy individuals in the Framingham cohort. This is a case in men and women. And the relative risk of mortality at any particular age, you'll see in this slide, is really massively elevated up to 20-fold in some age groups, and particularly high in young women in whom the background rates in the population are, of course, very low.
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We have updated in the next slide these data in the Scottish population in which we have about 25,000 people with type 1 diabetes who were followed up using our nationwide unintrusive epidemiology systems with data linkage not just to mortality data, but to morbidity data and also pharmacy data and biochemistry data. This particular slide is a publication from a few years ago, PLOS Medicine, where we've looked in a very similar manner to the risk of cardiovascular disease and total mortality in adults with type 1 diabetes in Scotland. This shows the age-standardized rate of events according to different age groups in males and females with and without type 1 diabetes. You can see that if you compare the red line at the top with the blue line two from the bottom, this are the rates of events in men with and without type 1 diabetes and really summarizing the relative risk in terms of incidence rates of cardiovascular disease. The men right across the spectrum, the rates are elevated to almost two-and-a-half-fold and in women threefold. And the risk starts at a very young age group.
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