Incidence of idiopathic cardiomyopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes in Taiwan: age, sex, and urbanization status-stratified analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The epidemiology of diabetes and idiopathic cardiomyopathy have limited data. We investigated the overall and the age-, sex-, and urbanization-specific incidence and relative hazard of idiopathic cardiomyopathy in association with type 2 diabetes and various anti-diabetic medications used in Taiwan.

Methods

A total of 474,268 patients with type 2 diabetes were identified from ambulatory care and inpatient claims in 2007-2009 from Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) database. We randomly selected 474,266 age-, sex-, and diagnosis date-matched controls from the registry of NHI beneficiaries. All study subjects were linked to ambulatory care and inpatient claims (up to the end of 2016) to identify the possible diagnosis of idiopathic cardiomyopathy. The person-y

SUBMITTER: Chen HF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7558694 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature