Temporal trajectories of accompanying comorbidities in patients with type 2 diabetes: a Korean nationwide observational study.

ABSTRACT: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a major concern globally and well known for increasing risk of complications. However, diabetes complications often remain undiagnosed and untreated in a large number of high-risk patients. In this study based on claims data collected in South Korea, we aimed to explore the diagnostic progression and sex- and age-related differences among patients with type 2 diabetes using time-considered patterns of the incidence of comorbidities that evolved after a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. This study compared 164,593 patients who met the full criteria for type 2 diabetes with age group-, sex-, encounter type-, and diagnosis date-matched controls who had not been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. We identified 76,423 significant trajectories of four diagnoses from the data

SUBMITTER: Jeong E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7099011 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature