Study links wealth to diabetes death risk

Having diabetes has the same effect on someone's risk of death as living in a very deprived community, research shows. University researchers have found that people with Type 2 diabetes from an affluent background had the same risk of dying as someone without the condition from a deprived area. But the highest risks of suffering an early death remained in patients from the worst off backgrounds who had diabetes. Patients from these areas had almost twice the risk of those from more affluent areas. Poor health. Previous research has shown that Scotland's most deprived communities have among the worst health records in the - Scottish regions account for eight of the bottom ten areas with the lowest life expectancy for British men. But the latest work, published in the journal Diabetes Care, also shows that living in a more affluent area cannot protect you from the worst effects of Type 2 diabetes.