The incidence of diabetes among 0-34 year olds in Sweden: new data and better methods.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

We reassessed the validity of previously reported incidence rates for type 1 diabetes in 0-34 year olds in Sweden. We estimated new incidence rates through three nationwide registers.

Methods

We used capture-recapture methods to assess ascertainment in the Diabetes Incidence Study in Sweden (DISS) and estimated incidence rates in the 20-34 year age group for 2007-2009. We examined whether incidence rates in patients aged 34 and younger could be estimated through the Prescribed Drug Register (PDR) via a proxy for diagnosis of type 1 diabetes; men with at least one and women with at least three prescriptions for insulin were included if they had not been given oral glucose-lowering drugs. We scrutinised the proxy by comparing incidence rates in patients aged 14

SUBMITTER: Rawshani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4052006 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature