Decreasing incidence of pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes in Norway: a nationwide study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

This study aimed to examine recent time trends in the incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Norway.

Methods

In this Norwegian nationwide cohort study, we linked data from national registries with prospectively collected data on diabetes medication and diabetes diagnoses for all residents in Norway aged 30 to 89 years (>3.2 million people). We analysed trends in incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes from 2009 to 2014 by type of treatment, sex, age, education level and place of birth.

Results

During 15,463,691 person-years of follow-up from 2009 to 2014, we identified 75,496 individuals with new-onset type 2 diabetes. Of these, 36,334 (48%) were treated with blood-glucose-lowering drugs within 6 months of diagnosis. A low education level a

SUBMITTER: Ruiz PLD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6182655 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature