Health outcomes associated with patterns of substance use disorders among patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension: Electronic health record findings.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify substance use disorder (SUD) patterns and their association with T2DM health outcomes among patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

Methods

We used latent class analysis on electronic health records from the MetroHealth System (Cleveland, Ohio) to obtain the target SUD groups: i) only tobacco (TUD), ii) tobacco and alcohol (TAUD), and iii) tobacco, alcohol, and at least one more substance (PSUD). A matching program with Mahalanobis distance within propensity score calipers created the matched control groups: no SUD (NSUD) for TUD and TUD for the other two SUD groups. The numbers of participants for the target-control groups were 8009 (TUD), 1672 (TAUD), and 642 (PSUD).

Results

TUD was significantly associated with T2DM complications. Compared

SUBMITTER: Khan MTF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10855015 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature