Assessment of the underreporting of diabetes as a co-morbidity in hospital admission data

Submitted by pgmcintosh on Mon, 19/12/2011 - 10:31

Aims/hypothesis
To describe the associations between age, sex and BMI at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, and test the hypothesis that men are diagnosed with diabetes at lower average BMI than women of similar age.

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First Patient Recruited to Diabetes Study

Submitted by pgmcintosh on Wed, 14/12/2011 - 12:16

Doctors and scientists at the University of Glasgow have recruited the first patient to join a major international research project to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

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Assessment of the under-reporting of diabetes in hospital admission data

Submitted by pgmcintosh on Thu, 17/11/2011 - 00:00

Aims
Good quality data are required to plan and evaluate diabetes services and to assess progress against targets for reducing hospital admissions and bed days. The aim of this study was to assess the completeness of recording of diabetes in hospital admissions using recent national data for Scotland.

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Effect of socioeconomic status on mortality among people with Type 2 diabetes

Submitted by pgmcintosh on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 13:27

OBJECTIVE
The study objective was to describe the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on mortality among people with type 2 diabete

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