Compression of disability between two birth cohorts of US adults with diabetes, 1992-2012: a prospective longitudinal analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The life expectancy of the average American with diabetes has increased, but the quality of health and functioning during those extra years are unknown. We aimed to investigate the net effect of recent trends in diabetes incidence, disability, and mortality on the average age of disability onset and the number of healthy and disabled years lived by adults with and without diabetes in the USA. We assessed whether disability expanded or was compressed in the population with diabetes and compared the findings with those for the population without diabetes in two consecutive US birth cohorts aged 50-70 years.

Methods

In this prospective longitudinal analysis, we analysed data for two cohorts of US adults aged 50-70 years from the Health and Retirement Study, including

SUBMITTER: Bardenheier BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4959005 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature