Healio (1/14, Tedesco) reports, “Patients with young-onset type 2 diabetes have excess hospitalizations and a substantial mental illness burden before age 40 years,” researchers concluded after calculating “the all-cause and cause-specific hospitalization rates of a population-based cohort and registry-based cohort, including a total of 443,794 patients aged 20 to 75 years from Hong Kong, using the Hong Kong Diabetes Registry.”
MedPage Today (1/14, Monaco) reports that “after age 60, cardiovascular disease overtook mental health as the largest driver of hospitalizations, regardless of the onset age of diabetes.” Prior to age 40, “mental illness accounted for nearly 37% of all bed-days for those with young-onset diabetes.” The findings were published online Jan. 15 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Medscape (1/14, Tucker, Subscription Publication) also covers the study.
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— “Young-onset diabetes linked to increased risk for hospitalization, mental illness, “Alaina Tedesco, Healio, January 14, 2019