Type 1 Diabetes In Adulthood Increases Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Study

New Delhi: People who develop type 1 diabetes in adulthood have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death, according to a new research.

However, those diagnosed later in life do not have a better prognosis than those diagnosed earlier, according to the study conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, which pointed to smoking, poor glucose control and obesity as the main risk factors.

Research on adult-onset type 1 diabetes is limited, so the team wanted to investigate the risk of cardiovascular disease and death in this group, particularly for those diagnosed after the age of 40.