Comparing Diabetes and Hypoglycemia Mortality Rates
Abstract (300 words maximum)
Around the world, hypoglycemia and diabetes morality has been on the rise. This study aims to explore the difference between hypoglycemia and diabetes related morality on a global scale. Knowing the mortality rate of diabetes and hypoglycemia would be useful for countries needing to know what they should be doing differently to tackle this issue. The data was found on Mendeley Data and is called “Global proportions and rates of hypoglycemia-related morality” by Francesco Zaccardi. They focused on proportions of hypoglycemia related deaths (compared to total diabetes deaths) and counts of hypoglycemia and diabetic related mortalities across 109 different countries. Descriptive statistics and frequency tables were generated for the variables of interest. Two data sets were merged to have one file that contained hypoglycemia, diabetes and population counts. Two new variables were then computed to show the incidence rates of hypoglycemia and diabetes. There were higher mortality rates shown in Japan, Latin America and Caribbean countries. And lower mortality rates in Europe, North America, and other high-income regions. We can see which countries with lower mortality rates and follow their practices to help lower countries with higher mortality rates. Some policy suggestions could be to improve diabetes management and monitoring, strengthen healthcare access, and to enhance death certification accuracy. Policy makers should improve death certification is because lower income countries may not have the correct data, which in turn creates a lack of focus on the issue. This is also one of the notable limitations when trying to help diabetics across lower income countries. To summarize, the study shows us geographic differences between hypoglycemia and diabetes related mortality rates across 109 countries.
Academic department under which the project should be listed
CCSE - Data Science and Analytics
Primary Investigator (PI) Name
Kevin Gittner
Comparing Diabetes and Hypoglycemia Mortality Rates
Around the world, hypoglycemia and diabetes morality has been on the rise. This study aims to explore the difference between hypoglycemia and diabetes related morality on a global scale. Knowing the mortality rate of diabetes and hypoglycemia would be useful for countries needing to know what they should be doing differently to tackle this issue. The data was found on Mendeley Data and is called “Global proportions and rates of hypoglycemia-related morality” by Francesco Zaccardi. They focused on proportions of hypoglycemia related deaths (compared to total diabetes deaths) and counts of hypoglycemia and diabetic related mortalities across 109 different countries. Descriptive statistics and frequency tables were generated for the variables of interest. Two data sets were merged to have one file that contained hypoglycemia, diabetes and population counts. Two new variables were then computed to show the incidence rates of hypoglycemia and diabetes. There were higher mortality rates shown in Japan, Latin America and Caribbean countries. And lower mortality rates in Europe, North America, and other high-income regions. We can see which countries with lower mortality rates and follow their practices to help lower countries with higher mortality rates. Some policy suggestions could be to improve diabetes management and monitoring, strengthen healthcare access, and to enhance death certification accuracy. Policy makers should improve death certification is because lower income countries may not have the correct data, which in turn creates a lack of focus on the issue. This is also one of the notable limitations when trying to help diabetics across lower income countries. To summarize, the study shows us geographic differences between hypoglycemia and diabetes related mortality rates across 109 countries.