Type 1 diabetes (T1D) development in adulthood was linked to an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death, with diagnosis at age ≥40 years not related to an improved long-term prognosis compared with those diagnosed earlier.1
The registry-based study, using nationwide Swedish data from 2001 to 2022, identified more than 10,000 people diagnosed with T1D in adulthood between 2001 and 2020 in the National Diabetes Register (NDR), and compared them with approximately 509,000 matched individuals in the control cohort.
“The main reasons for the poor prognosis are smoking, overweight/obesity, and poor glucose control. We found that they were less likely to use assistive devices, such as insulin pumps,” said Yuxia Wei, a postdoctoral fellow at the institute of environmental medicine at Karolinska Institute…