Causes of the change in the rates of mortality and severe complications of diabetes mellitus: 1992-2012.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify the causes of the changes in the rates of mortality and select severe complications of diabetes mellitus, type 2 (T2D) among the elderly between 1992 and 2012.

Research design

A retrospective cohort study design based on Medicare 5% administrative claims data from 1992 to 2012 was used. Traditional fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries, age 65 and older, diagnosed with T2D and living in the United States between 1992 and 2012 were included in the study. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was used to quantify the potential causes of the change in the rates of death, congestive heart failure and/or acute myocardial infarction, stroke, amputation of lower extremity and end-stage renal disease between 1992 and 2012.

Results

The number of beneficiaries in

SUBMITTER: Yashkin AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4327779 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature