A study show that women with diabetes are still in a high risk category with absolutely no show of decline in their death rate. All the advances in medical science have reduced cardiovascular diseases to quite an extent and extended lives. But sadly it does not seem to apply to women with diabetes.

The rate of premature death among American men with diabetes has dropped dramatically over the last few decades.

The proportion of early deaths among diabetic women remained unchanged between 1971 and 2000, say Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers, whose findings were published online today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

It's not clear why the discrepancy exists. "I do not have a clue," said Dr. Larry Deeb, president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association (ADA), when asked why women are falling behind. "But I do know that it argues that something we're doing isn't right. If you're a woman, and you have diabetes, it may be we're not aggressive enough about taking care of you."

The researchers looked at about 27,000 people.

They found that among diabetic men, the death rate from all causes dipped from 42.6 to 24.4 deaths per 1,000 persons between the two time periods.

Among men, "their mortality rates have declined," Gregg said, "and they've kept pace with their non-diabetic counterparts." But among diabetic women, the death rate actually rose from 18.4 to 25.9 per 1,000, even as the life span of non-diabetic women grew longer.

The death rate from cardiovascular disease (CVD), the most common cause of death in diabetics, fell for men to 12.8 per 1,000 from 26.4. These drops paralleled declining death rates among both men and women without diabetes in the U.S. population (down to 9.5 per 1,000 from 14.4) over the three-decade period.

Cardiologist Nanette Wenger of Emory University, Atlanta, suggests diabetic women who have heart disease are less li
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