A new study has shown that there has been a momentous drop in the death rates of people suffering from type-1 diabetes. The mortality rate of people diagnosed in the late 1970s was found to be lower in comparison to those diagnosed in the 1960s.

"The outcome of this study shows that diabetes care has improved in many ways over the last couple of decades, and as a result people with diabetes are living longer now", said Barbara Araneo, Director of complications therapies at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Study's senior author, Dr. Trevor J. Orchard, a Professor of epidemiology, medicine and pediatrics in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Penn said that if one agreed to stay under good [diabetes] control, it was possible to have a normal life expectancy.

However, the study made it very clear that the mortality rates for people with type 1 in opposition to general population was higher by as much as seven times.

Also, the women with type-1 diabetes were found to be 13 times more likely to die in comparison to their female counterparts without the disease. Women too have disproportionately higher mortality rates.