# Diabetes, young adults and alcohol: early death statistics

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-young-adults-and-alcohol-early-death-statistics/6782>\
**Category:** T1 Teen/College\
**Tags:** diabetes-deaths\
**Created:** [February 17, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-young-adults-and-alcohol-early-death-statistics/6782 "2019-02-17T18:42:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kaelan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/kaelan/32/989_2.png) [@Kaelan](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Kaelan)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-young-adults-and-alcohol-early-death-statistics/6782/6 "2019-02-18T18:27:34Z")

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In fact, diabetics using oral drugs (T2s) only die at 1.71 rate:

> [@Diabetic beer olympics: advice on alcohol use?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetic-beer-olympics-advice-on-alcohol-use/6631/46):
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> the adjusted MRRs for alcohol-related deaths were 1.71 for diabetic men treated with Oral Antidiabetic Drug [T2s] and 6.92 for those on insulin; the respective MRRs for diabetic women were 2.10 and 10.60.

So T2 male diabetics not using insulin die at 171% rate of normal, but male diabetics using insulin die at 692% rate of normal. So the difference must be alcoholic hypos (or mostly). That’s bad.

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