Diabetes Trends in Germany

Title:
Diabetes Prevalence of known diabetes in German adults aged 25–69 years: results from national health surveys over 15 years

Authors:
C. Heidemann, L. Kroll, A. Icks*, T. Lampert and C. Scheidt-Nave

KEYWORDS:
cross-sectional studies • diabetes mellitus • health surveys • prevalence • trend

Abstract:

Aims:
The few studies examining the secular trend in diabetes prevalence in Germany have yielded conflicting results. Therefore, using nationally representative samples of adults, we investigated whether the prevalence of known diabetes has changed over 15 years.

Methods:
Study participants were 25- to 69-year-old residents participating in nationally representative health surveys performed in the following time periods: 1990–1992, 1997–1999, 2002–2003, 2003–2004 and 2004–2005. Prevalences of diabetes, standardized to the population structure of 2004, and trends over time were assessed for the total study population as well as by gender and other diabetes-associated factors.

Results:
Between 1990–1992 and 2002–2005, no statistically significant trend in the total (5.16 and 5.34%, P trend = 0.68) or sex-specific diabetes prevalence (men: 5.43 and 5.73, P trend = 0.62; women: 4.88 and 4.95%, P trend = 0.94) was observed. For each time period, prevalence rose substantially with increasing age, increasing body mass index, lower sporting activity and lower education.

Conclusions:
Our findings reflect no temporal increase in the total prevalence of known diabetes in German adult men and women. However, prevalence estimates were relatively high when compared with other European studies and call for continued efforts for the prevention and management of diabetes. Accepted 15 April 2009

Presentation at the ISA-Forum 08 in Barcelona | Healthy Life Expectancy

”Are Things Getting Better or Worse, and Why? The Role of Social Indicators to Inform Public Policy”
ISA – Working Group 06 “Social Indicators
Conference Track at 1st ISA Forum “Sociological Research and Public Debate”
Barcelona, September 5 – 8, 2008

Session 1: Indicators and Their Use to Guide Policies in the Field of Health
Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll, GESIS-ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany

Authors:
Lars Eric Kroll; Thomas Lampert; Cornelia Lange; Thomas Ziese

Title: Healthy Life Expectancy as an indicator to compare the health of societies

Abstract:
Background
Healthy life expectancy is an important indicator to describe the consequences of demo-graphic change for different societies. Possible scenarios are an overall increase of the years people are suffering diseases or functional limitations (“expansion of morbidity”), a decline of the morbid time in the life course (“compression of morbidity”) and a “dynamic equilibrium” of morbidity and mortality. We will discuss the concept and problems of the indicator healthy life expectancy for policy advice.

Presentation at SOEP2008 | Life expectancy

Title:
Analyses of socio-economic inequalities in life expectancy using SOEP

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Article on social capital and health

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