Globally, diabetes affects both men and women equally; however, there is conflicting evidence regarding sex-based differences in diabetes-associated complications. Now, a study evaluated the sex differences in microvascular and macrovascular complications in 25,173 adult diabetes patients. The study found that male diabetes patients had an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD; adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) – 1.51) and lower limb (aHR – 1.47) and kidney complications (aHR – 1.55), and diabetic retinopathy (aHR – 1.14) compared to female diabetes patients. In addition, over ten years of the study duration, more male patients developed a CVD (44% vs.
31%) and lower limb (25% vs. 18%) or kidney (35% vs. 25%) complication than female patients. Although male patients had a higher risk of developing diabetes-related complications , the complication rates were high among both sexes.…
