Recent trends in life expectancy for people with type 1 diabetes in Sweden

Mental health visits and low socio‐economic status in adolescence are associated with complications of Type 1 diabetes in early adulthood: a population‐based cohort study

“…Population-based studies from Norway, Sweden and the UK report similar standardized mortality ratios from over a similar time period, ranging from 2.6 to 4.3 [21][22][23]. In the present study, it appears that even non-diabetes-related mortality in those with diabetes is higher than mortality in the control population.…”

High prevalence of comorbid autoimmune diseases in adults with type 1 diabetes from the HealthFacts database

“…In addition, our exclusive adult cohort, with a mean age of 51.4 years, provides unique insight into the prevalence of AID in adults with T1D across a broad age spectrum. Although T1D is classically defined as a disease of childhood, recent research finds that the life expectancy for patients with T1D is well into the seventh decade due to advances in technology and therapy for glucose control. Thus, it is imperative for the literature to expand data on these patients as they age so clinicians can adequately assess all comorbidities.…”

A Contemporary Estimate of Total Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: The Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications Study

“…The Swedish National Diabetes Register also includes adult-onset cases of T1DM and has an average diabetes duration of 20.4 years, again shorter than that of the EDC cohort, which may partially explain the lower excess mortality. In a separate report on data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register, life expectancy between the time periods of 2002–2006 and 2007–2011 was found to have increased by ∼2 years in men but was unchanged in women (29). …”