Type 2 diabetes mellitus increases the risk of circumcision among men aged between 30 and 69 years using a nationwide population-based dataset in Taiwan: a five-year follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetes is an important factor in the development of penile inflammation. We studied whether type 2 diabetes (DM), with/without hypertension and hyperlipidemia increased the risk of circumcision among men aged between 30 and 69 using a population-based dataset in Taiwan during a 5-year follow-up period.

Methods

The research data in this study were obtained from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database between 1997 and 2010. We identified 23,197 patients who had a new diagnosis of DM and randomly matched 115,985 subjects as controls. We observed whether circumcision was the treatment after a new DM diagnosis. The initial step involved analyzing the data using Poisson regression analysis. To address potential confounding factors, this study employed pro

SUBMITTER: Wu YR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10765904 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature