TY - JOUR
T1 - Register-based studies of diabetes
AU - Carstensen, Bendix
AU - Borch-Johnsen, Knut
PY - 2011/7/1
Y1 - 2011/7/1
N2 - Introduction: During the last decade, a number of population-based diabetes registers have emerged which have enhanced the population-based epidemiology of diabetes. The aim of this paper is to review research based on Danish diabetes registers and to compare with similar research in Finland, Sweden, Scotland, and Canada. Research topics: The pattern with the highest prevalences in ages around 75 years is consistent between studies based on different registers, and so is the finding that incidence rates of diabetes are higher among females than males only in ages 20-40. Diabetes registers have been and is increasingly being used to study and particularly quantify links with cardiovascular disease and with cancer. Recently, available medication profiles of diabetes patients have been used as well to further elucidate these links. Conclusion: Diabetes registers are valuable sources of data for description of the trends in occurrence, development, and mortality of diabetes. However, it requires careful application of modern statistical methods since effects of calendar time, age, and duration of diabetes all have to be taken into account when reporting results.
AB - Introduction: During the last decade, a number of population-based diabetes registers have emerged which have enhanced the population-based epidemiology of diabetes. The aim of this paper is to review research based on Danish diabetes registers and to compare with similar research in Finland, Sweden, Scotland, and Canada. Research topics: The pattern with the highest prevalences in ages around 75 years is consistent between studies based on different registers, and so is the finding that incidence rates of diabetes are higher among females than males only in ages 20-40. Diabetes registers have been and is increasingly being used to study and particularly quantify links with cardiovascular disease and with cancer. Recently, available medication profiles of diabetes patients have been used as well to further elucidate these links. Conclusion: Diabetes registers are valuable sources of data for description of the trends in occurrence, development, and mortality of diabetes. However, it requires careful application of modern statistical methods since effects of calendar time, age, and duration of diabetes all have to be taken into account when reporting results.
KW - Demography
KW - diabetes
KW - epidemiology
KW - incidence
KW - mortality
KW - prevalence
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U2 - 10.1177/1403494811404279
DO - 10.1177/1403494811404279
M3 - Review
C2 - 21775379
AN - SCOPUS:79960786446
VL - 39
SP - 175
EP - 179
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
SN - 1403-4948
IS - 7
ER -