Trends in Diabetes Incidence in the Last Decade Based on Korean National Health Insurance Claims Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Epidemiological data is useful to estimate the necessary manpower and resources used for disease control and prevention of prevalent chronic diseases. We aimed to evaluate the incidence of diabetes and identify its trends based on the claims data from the National Health Insurance Service database over the last decade.

Methods

We extracted claims data on diabetes as the principal and first additional diagnoses of National Health Insurance from January 2003 to December 2012. We investigated the number of newly claimed subjects with diabetes codes, the number of claims and the demographic characteristics of this population.

Results

Total numbers of claimed cases and populations with diabetes continuously increased from 1,377,319 in 2003 to 2,571,067 by 2012.

SUBMITTER: Song SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4923414 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature