Why the study?
Understanding of racial and ethnic disparities in the longitudinal natural history of T2DM microvascular complications over eight years among older adults in the US and Canada was limited.
Do risk trajectories of type 2 diabetes-related microvascular complications differ across racial/ethnic groups among older adults?
Do risk trajectories of type 2 diabetes-related microvascular complications differ across racial/ethnic groups among older adults?
Older adults of 'Other' races (predominantly Hispanic) with type 2 diabetes demonstrated a declining risk of microvascular complications over 8 years, whereas Black and White adults experienced an increasing risk over time.
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Differential microvascular trends by race in older T2D adults should not yet change practice; hypothesis-generating for targeted confirmation.
Parab et al. (2025) studied this question.
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