Associations of Type 2 Diabetes Onset Age With Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality: The Kailuan Study
<b>Objective</b><b></b> <p>We aimed to explore the associations between type 2 diabetes onset age and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality in Chinese population.</p> <p><b>Research design and methods</b></p> <p>This study included 101,080 participants free of prevalent diabetes and CVD at baseline from the Kailuan study. All participants were followed biennially until December 31, 2017. A total of 11,384 participants were diagnosed as type 2 diabetes during follow-up. For each case, one control was randomly selected matched for age (±1 years) and sex. The final analysis comprised 10,777 case-control pairs. Weighted Cox regression models were used to evaluate the average hazard ratios (AHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of incident CVD and all-cause mortality among patients with new-onset type 2 diabetes <i>versus </i>controls across age groups.</p> <p><b>Results</b><b></b></p> <p>During a median follow-up of 5.57 years, 1794 incident events (907 CVD events, of which were 725 strokes, and 887 deaths) occurred. After adjustment for potential confounders, participants with type 2 diabetes diagnosed at age < 45 years had the highest risks of CVD and all-cause mortality relative to the matched controls, with AHRs of 3.21 (95% CI 1.18–8.72) for CVD, 2.99 (95% CI 1.01–9.17) for stroke, and 4.79 (95% CI 1.95–11.76) for all-cause mortality. The risks gradually attenuated with each decade increase in type 2 diabetes onset age. </p> <p><b>Conclusions</b><b></b></p> <p>The relative risks of CVD and all-cause mortality differed across type 2 diabetes onset age groups, and the associations were more evident in younger-onset type 2 diabetes. </p>