Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Bangladesh: a prevalence based cost-of-illness study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The economic burden of type 2 diabetes has not been adequately investigated in many low- and lower middle-income countries, including Bangladesh. The aim of this study was to estimate the cost-of-illness of type 2 diabetes and to find its determinants in Bangladesh.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 to recruit 1253 participants with type 2 diabetes from six diabetes hospitals, providing primary to tertiary health care services, located in the northern and central regions of Bangladesh. A structured questionnaire was used for face-to-face interviewing to collect non-clinical data. Patients' medical records were reviewed for clinical data and hospital records were reviewed for hospitalisation data. Cost was calculated from the patient's perspecti

SUBMITTER: Afroz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712789 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature