Direct Medical Costs of Incident Complications in Patients Newly Diagnosed With Type 2 Diabetes in China.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Reliable country-specific incidence and cost data on diabetes-related complications are essential inputs for the projections of the economic burden of diabetes. The aim of this study was to provide patient-level cost estimates of managing and treating complications in patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in China.

Methods

Patients newly diagnosed with T2DM in the Tianjin Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance Claims database between 2008 and 2015 were identified and followed up. The cumulative incidence and descriptive costs of certain macrovascular and microvascular complications were examined. A generalized estimating equations model was used to estimate the immediate- and long-term costs for the incident complication in quarterly inte

SUBMITTER: He X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7843809 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature