Insulinitis Mortality Rates
- From: "Pro-Humanist FREELOVER" <prohuman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:47:17 -0600
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What is a mortality rate?
Another phrase for death rate, the number
of deaths per unit, usually 1000, of population
in a given place and time.
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The following study conveys information of
interest on Insulinitis mortality rates, as deter-
mined by a study of almost 1,100 persons with
Insulinitis in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:
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Mortality Rates for persons with Insulinitis
compared to mortality rates for the general
population:
Women: 13 times higher
Diagnosed 1965 to 1969: 9.3 times higher
Diagnosed 1970 to 1974: 7.5 times higher
Diagnosed 1975 to 1979: 5.6 times higher
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30 year Survival Rates for two ethnic groups
with Insulinitis:
Whites: 83 percent
Blacks: 57 percent
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Comments
Since I was diagnosed in 1961, I suppose it
would be logical to presume my mortality rate
is at least 10 times higher than the general
population, so needless to say, with my non-
glucose testing (until recently) modality and
my 2 shots/day insulin injections (changed to
1 toward the end of a 48 year period, upped ...
.... to 5 or 6 on most days now, since switching
to an intensive insulin regimen based on the
advice of a local GP), never into urine testing
(as best I recall, I stopped doing that in 5th
grade), I'm grateful to have survived this long
(with the only apparent complication being
hypoglycemic unawareness, and ...
.... the unconsciousness and seizure events
which required emergency assistance -- I've
had no emergency events and my hypoglycemic
awareness has improved for over a year, now).
One explanation for the data above is that
Insulinitis has an increasing rate of mortality
the longer you have the condition. The dis-
parity in mortality rates between blacks and
whites, perhaps reflective of an overall higher
mortality rate for blacks relative to whites, as
well as social/cultural/economic factors which
may have played a role in that disparity.
Needless to say, if someone told you your chance
of death would double if you came down with
a particular condition, you'd be shocked and
afraid, so in the case of Insulinitis it's shocking
that the mortality rates are so much higher than
the general population the longer you have
the condition (as stated, likely at least 10 times
higher for yours truly, diagnosed in March of
1961).
Reference [with inserts, not part of original
article, included in brackets]:
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Type 1 Diabetes [Insulinitis] Death Rate
is Falling [a misinterpretation of the fact
that remains constant, that being that
the longer one has the condition (and
for that matter, the longer anyone is
alive), the higher one's death risk, with
Insulinitis playing no small role in that
increased death risk over time], but not
fast enough
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/646517.html
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C.ure I.nsulinitis A.ssociation
http://prohuman.net/cureinsulinitisassociation.htm
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