No coverage.
Last week, a new email popped up in my inbox. The subject line was innocent enough. It read “Are you covering The Lancet study on Women and Diabetes?” No, I wasn’t, but I’d like to know more. I mean, I’m a woman with diabetes, so there’s that. Then I opened the email and read on. The email got right to the point, beginning with this:
“Are you covering The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology article on women with type 1 diabetes at significantly higher risk of dying compared with men?
According to the article in The Lancet, “Women with type 1 diabetes [1] face a 40% increased excess risk of death from all causes [2], and have more than twice the risk of dying from heart disease, compared to men with type 1 diabetes, a large meta-analysis involving more than 200 000 people with type 1 diabetes published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology has found.”
Um. Wow. No, Random Person emailing me about this incredibly depressing and downright nightmarish statistic, I’m not covering this article. I’m not covering this because there are enough scary and bad statistics out there about diabetes already. I’m not covering it because this blog isn’t about focusing on all the bad sh!t that could happen with diabetes, it’s actually about thriving with Type 1. I’m not covering that article because that information LITERALLY HELPS NO ONE FEEL BETTER ABOUT DIABETES.
No dude, I’m not covering that article. I’m actually deleting your email right now. There, now that feels better.
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Comments
Yay! Statistics abuse! Got to love it 
Did you know that your risk of getting trampled by a hippo is 150% larger than the risk of getting killed by a shark?
Got those numbers from the newspaper today (well: they reported 15 and 10 deaths, respectively).
Also “40% increased excess risk of death from all causes”. This is rubbish. The risk of death from all causes for everyone is 100% (possible exceptions: Elvis).
You guys are the best - love the comments on this post. Rich and Floh, your comments kind of combined in a way: the statistic of dying from one cause or another is 100% Also appreciate the Elvis exception - he had Type 2, didn’t he!?
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