THURSDAY, June 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) – For adults in the United States, there was improvement in diabetes control from 1999 to the early 2010s, which then faltered and decreased, according to a study published in the Jan. June of the New England Journal of Medicine was published.
Michael Fang, Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues examined trends in diabetes management and risk factor control using data from adults with diabetes from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1999 to 2018.
The researchers found that from 1999 to the early 2010s, participants experienced improvements in diabetes control, which then stalled and decreased. The proportion of adults with diabetes who achieved glycemic control (glycated hemoglobin <7 percent) decreased from 57.4 percent in 2007 to 2010 to 50.5 percent in 2015 to 2018. After a significant improvement in lipid control (non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level <130 mg / dl) in the early 2000s, there was minimal improvement (52.3 to 55.7 percent) from 2007-2010 to 2015-2018 . The proportion of participants with blood pressure control (<140/90 mm Hg) fell from 74.2 percent in the years 2011 to 2014 to 70.4 percent in the years 2015 to 2018. After 2010, the proportion of participants in which all three goals were achieved at the same time, and reached 22.2 percent in the years 2015 to 2018.
“After major improvements from 1999 to 2010, diabetes control in the United States has stalled and deteriorated,” the authors write.
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