The Relationship Between Health Insurance Status and Diabetic Retinopathy Progression.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if baseline diabetic retinopathy (DR) severity mediates the relationship between health insurance status and DR progression.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Subjects

Seven hundred sixteen patients aged ≥ 18 years with a diagnosis of type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus, and a diagnosis of nonproliferative DR (NPDR) were identified from the electronic health record of a tertiary academic center between June 2012 and February 2022.

Methods

NPDR severity at baseline was the proposed mediator in the relationship between insurance status and proliferative DR (PDR) progression. Logistic regression was used to determine the association between insurance status and NPDR severity at baseline, and Cox proportional hazards regression was used to assess

SUBMITTER: Guo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10840328 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature