Diabetes can shorten lifespan by 9 yrs

Diabetes can lower the life expectancy of adults by an average of nine years, researchers in China concluded in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The research team from Peking University explained that the study was inspired by the rapidly increasing prevalence of diabetes in China, where the disease now affects an estimated 100 million adults. Because the increase in diabetes prevalence in China has happened only recently, they said, the eventual effect on mortality was unclear.