Younger age at diagnosis, longer diabetes duration over the life span may contribute to disparities in diabetes-related morbidity, mortality<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The mean age of diabetes diagnosis is four to seven years younger in non-Hispanic Black and Mexican American adults versus White adults in the United States, according to a research letter published online Sept. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n Michael C. Wang, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues pooled data for two-year cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2011 through 2018) to compare self-reported age at diabetes diagnosis by race\/ethnicity among 3,022 U.S. adults.<\/p>\n The researchers found that the mean age at diabetes diagnosis overall was 49.9 years. Compared with non-Hispanic White adults (mean age, 51.8 years), Mexican American and non-Hispanic Black adults reported a significantly younger mean age at diagnosis (47.2 and 44.9 years, respectively). Compared with non-Hispanic White adults (14.4 percent), the weighted proportion of adults with diabetes diagnosed at younger than 40 years was significantly greater among Mexican American adults (35.0 percent) and non-Hispanic Black adults (25.1 percent).<\/p>\n “Efforts to prevent and manage diabetes earlier in the life course may help reduce the substantial premature morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes,” the authors write.<\/p>\n Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n Editorial (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n