Longitudinal change in health-related quality of life in people with prevalent and incident type 2 diabetes compared to diabetes-free controls.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this analysis is to compare people with prevalent type 2 diabetes, incident type 2 diabetes and without diabetes with respect to longitudinal change in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) when adjusting for baseline determinants of HRQOL.

Research design and methods

Primary baseline and follow-up data from three regional and one national population-based cohort studies in Germany were pooled for analysis. HRQOL was measured using physical and mental health summary scores (PCS and MCS) from the German version of the Short Form Health Survey with 36 or 12 items. Mean score change per observation year was compared between the three groups (prevalent diabetes, incident diabetes, no diabetes) based on linear regression models.

Results

The anal

SUBMITTER: Schunk M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5415190 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature