# T1 mortality rates

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/t1-mortality-rates/224>\
**Category:** T1 Research\
**Tags:** complications, statistics, diabetes-deaths\
**Created:** [March 27, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/t1-mortality-rates/224 "2017-03-27T17:27:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/t1-mortality-rates/224/10 "2017-03-28T02:24:13Z")

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> [@Myths surrounding Diabetes](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/myths-surrounding-diabetes/151/25):
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> The stats we see about early mortality are driven by data that is decades old. Even newer data is driven by PWDs w/ high glycemic variability.

Totally true.

Here is an interesting set of stats from Finland, where treatment is universal and high quality: [http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5364](http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5364)

More than likely, death rate in Finland is lower than here - but these are the results for cumulative death rate of early onset T1Ds (in this study, up to the age of 15):  
“In the early onset cohort, the 20 year cumulative mortality in the groups diagnosed in 1970-4, 1975-9, 1980-4, and 1985-9 was 4.7% (3.7% to 5.8%), 4.3% (3.3% to 5.2%), 3.6% (2.8% to 4.5%), and 2.7% (1.9% to 3.4%) … However, the follow-up time of the last group had not yet reached 20 years,” which means that the 2.7% is not valid - but the 3.6% is (for people diagnosed on 1985-1989).

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