Ethnic differences in the severity and clinical management of type 2 diabetes at time of diagnosis: A cohort study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To characterize ethnic differences in the severity and clinical management of type 2 diabetes at initial diagnosis.

Methods

An observational cohort study of 179,886 people with incident type 2 diabetes between 2004 and 2017 in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink was undertaken; 63.4% of the cohort were of white ethnicity, 3.9% south Asian, and 1.6% black. Ethnic differences in clinical profile at diagnosis, consultation rates, and risk factor recording were derived from linear and logistic regression. Cox-proportional hazards regression was used to determine ethnic differences in time to initiation of therapeutic and non-therapeutic management following diagnosis. All analyses adjusted for age, sex, deprivation, and clustering by practice.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Mathur R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7042884 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature