FW: cureit: DIABETES SURVEY RESULTS(parts 5 and 6)

[Barbara Mallut <Barb_MSN@xxxxxxx>]

Ivan...

I just hadda thought, since your PD/Diabetes study has been drawn from a
relatively small and select group.  Have you contacted the national arm of the
Diabetes Assoc. and asked THEM if they've got any statistics about the
relationship of Diabetes and PD?  If you haven't done this, I believe you'll
be overlooking a potentially valuable source of additional information.

Barb Mallut
barb_msn@xxxxxxx
bmallut@xxxxxxxx

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Portland, Maine   land of lighthouses   40  deg. F
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Ivan Suzman  47/10   cureit@xxxxxxxx
Portland, Maine   land of lighthouses   40  deg. F
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Dear friends,

The following parts, 5 and 6, cover the topics of diabetic brothers and
sisters (siblings),
and diabetic mothers and fathers of PWP's.
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5. FEMALE PWP's have far more siblings with diabetes than do male PWP's.

                       NUMBER OF PWP's WITH  DIABETIC SIBLINGS
        TOTAL PWP'S
                       Brothers              Sisters          Brothers
and Sisters

Male PWP's           2                       1                        0
                          3  (males)

Female PWP's         6                       2                        2
                         10  (females)


There are three comments that I would like to mention, from this table of
results:

  1.   There are many more FEMALE PWP's with diabetic siblings,  10, as
opposed to only 3 male PWP's with diabetic siblings.

  2.    By percentage, 10 out of 25 FEMALE PWP's who have a diabetic
relative, or 40%. have one or more diabetic siblings. However, for our
male PWP's, there are merely 3 out of 37 (08%) who report having diabetic
siblings.

  3.     I wonder how this trend would look if the sample size were far
larger.  Would female PWP's continue to show far more diabetic brothers
and/ or sisters than male PWP's??   Why is this happening?


PART 6

6. Diabetic parents are much more frequently the MOTHERS of PWP's.

                                         Mother is  diabetic
Father is diabetic

Male PWP's (14 cases)                    10
        4

Female PWP's (13 cases)                  9
        4


There are 19 mothers, but only 8 fathers, who are diabetic relatives of
PWP's.

13 out of 25, or 52%, of the female PWP's who have diabetic relatives,
have a diabetic parent.   14 out of 37, or 38% of the male PWP's, have a
diabetic relative.

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