Lower risk of end stage renal disease in diabetic nurse.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As professional medical caregivers, nurses have extensive medical knowledge and information than general population. However, they may use their professional knowledge and networks to seek prompt health services. In this study, we aimed to determine susceptibility of nurses with diabetes to developing end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis compared to diabetes patients in the general population.

Methods

This retrospective longitudinal study extracted data of nurses with newly diagnosed diabetes and general patients with diabetes from the National Health Insurance Database between 1998 and 2006 and follow-up to December 2009, satisfied the participant inclusion criteria was 518,058. Nurses and general population were matched with propensity score method in a 1:

SUBMITTER: Pan CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5682979 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature