High Red Blood Cell Folate Is Associated With an Increased Risk of Death Among Adults With Diabetes, a 15-year Follow-up of a National Cohort
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2015
Publication Title
Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
DOI
10.1016/j.numecd.2015.08.007
ISSN
0939-4753
Abstract
Background and Aim: To describe the mortality and fatality of diabetes and assess their relationship with the level of red blood cell (RBC) folate.
Methods and Result: We analyzed the data of 526 adults with diabetes who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1991–1994) as the baseline examination, and were followed up through December 31, 2006. Estimates of the hazard ratios (HRs) of selected death causes for individuals with different levels of RBC folate were obtained from Cox proportional hazards regression. A total of 295 deaths were recorded by the end of a 15-year follow-up with a mortality rate of 58.48 per 1000 person year (py). Diabetes was listed as a contributing cause for 136 deaths, accounting for 46.1% of the total deaths with a fatality rate 26.96 per 1000 py. Mortality rate for all-cause in the group with upper quartile of RBC folate was almost twice as high as that among the group with lower quartile, 82.75 vs. 44.10 per 1000 py. After adjusting for covariates, including serum concentration of vitamin B12, cotinine, homocysteine and the history of cardio-cerebral vascular diseases assessed at the baseline, the HRs for dying from any causes were 1.00 (reference), 1.82 (95% CI = 1.25–2.66) and 2.10 (1.37–3.20) among diabetic adults with lower, intermediate, and upper quartiles of RBC folate.
Conclusion: Diabetes was listed as a contributing cause for less than half of the deaths among adults with diabetes after 15+ years of follow-up; high RBC folate concentration was associated with an elevated risk of death among adults with diabetes.
Recommended Citation
Kyte, Brittany, Emeka Ifebi, Sambridhi Shrestha, S. Charles, F. Liu, Jian Zhang.
2015.
"High Red Blood Cell Folate Is Associated With an Increased Risk of Death Among Adults With Diabetes, a 15-year Follow-up of a National Cohort."
Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 25 (11): 997-1006: Elsevier.
doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2015.08.007
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