Treatment pathways in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a nationwide cohort study of new users of metformin monotherapy in New Zealand.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aims of this study were to describe the following: (1) the time to change of therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes who had initiated metformin monotherapy as first-line treatment and (2) the sequence in which subsequent therapeutic regimens were introduced.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

National study based on linked data from the New Zealand Ministry of Health's National Collections of health and pharmaceutical dispensing data.

Participants

People with type 2 diabetes mellitus who initiated metformin monotherapy between 1 January 2006 and 30 September 2014 (n=93 874).

Primary outcome measures

Cumulative incidence curves were plotted to show the time taken to move from one regimen to another, while sunburst plots were used to illustrate

SUBMITTER: Guo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8375753 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature