Development and implementation of diabetes management programs may be urgently needed to reduce the burden of diabetes in Asia, according to a study published April 19 in JAMA Network Open. Jae Jeong Yang, PhD, et al., found that out of more than one million participants, the overall prevalence of diabetes reported at baseline was 4.8 percent for men and 3.6 percent for women. Patients with diabetes were found to have a 1.89-fold risk of all-cause death compared to patients without diabetes, and adverse diabetes-mortality associations were more evident among women and younger patients than men and elderly patients. The researchers note that "this large sample size and the availability of individual participant data of more than one million Asian individuals from 22 prospective cohort studies yields great statistical power to assess potential variations in the diabetes-mortality associations by participants' characteristics." Read more on ACC.org.