Diabetic women have fewer checks are Pap and mammography

Diabetic women have fewer checks are Pap and mammography

with diabetes are less likely than those without the disease to be the main cancer screening studies confirmed a new study in Spain.

The team doctor Rodrigo Jiménez-Garcia, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Alcorcón, Spain, analyzed data from 12,429 women in a position to have a mammogram (40 years or more) and 13,739 able to take a Pap test or Pap - - (women between 18 and 69 years).

The 62 percent of women without diabetes in terms of having a mammogram she had been made in the last two or three years, unlike 58 percent of diabetic participants.

Among women who should have a Pap test, only 66 percent of those without diabetes and 62 percent of diabetic patients had undergone the test recently.

After controlling for age, education, obesity and other factors that might influence the risk of diabetes and the likelihood of becoming a cancer control, the researchers found that women with diabetes were still significantly less likely to be a study of cancer detection breast and cervix.

Diabetic women were 16 percent less likely to undergo a mammogram and 18 percent less likely to have had a Pap test than non-diabetic.

These results replicate findings obtained in Spain in the United States indicate that women with diabetes are less likely to get a mammogram or a Pap test, as recommended by the experts.