Diabetes deaths in the United States have fallen to some of the lowest rates in years, according to new preliminary figures issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reversing the surge in mortality seen during that time. COVID-19 Pandemic.
There were 26.4 deaths per 100,000 people with diabetes, according to early death certificate data for the third quarter of 2024 issued this month by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
According to CDC figures, the death rate from diabetes peaked in 2021, with a death rate of 31.1 per 100,000 people that year. Diabetes was the eighth major cause of death in 2021. The CDC says the link between Covid-19 and diabetes could be attributed to that increase.
“The data show an increase in mortality rates for all people during the Covid-19 pandemic, and studies show that people with underlying conditions, including diabetes, become very ill since Covid-19 and are at a higher risk of hospitalization and death.”
Holliday added that the research is studying how, from interruptions to physical activity, disruption, to routine medical care for the diagnosis and treatment of illness, it may have made it more difficult for Americans to properly manage their illness.
“Diabetes-related mortality rates have been declining since 2021, but they haven’t returned to pre-obstetric and gynecological levels,” Holiday said.
There were 103,294 deaths from diabetes in 2021, up more than 17% from 87,647 deaths in 2019, before the pandemic. Preliminary data reported so far in 2024 tallyed 94,294 diabetes deaths last year.
Diabetes deaths were primarily declining prior to the Covid-19 pandemic despite an increase in the prevalence of the disease. These trends were before the introduction of new diabetes treatments, such as Ozempic and Munjaro, as seen. High demand.
According to the CDC National Health Interview Survey, one in 10 adults was diagnosed with diabetes.
Experts should note that analyzing the long-term trends in diabetic deaths is complicated for several reasons, including changes in the definition of illness over the past decades and variations in the way death certificates record diabetic deaths.
Additionally, not all death certificates record diabetes as the main “basic cause of death” but instead as a contribution factor that is counted individually.
“Diabetes is the more common cause of death, not the main underlying cause of death. Furthermore, most deaths in diabetic patients are cardiovascular and counted between the cardiovascular systems.”
Servin said it’s up to the doctor to choose whether to choose diabetes or other underlying health conditions as the cause of a heart attack death.
“All of these, the underlying trends in death reflect an awareness of diabetes and coding practices. It’s difficult to know what roles these roles play in these data,” Selvin said.
