New RWE Study Unveals Full Range of Medical Needs of Patients with Diabetes

A paper published in the journal eClinical Medicine explores the scope of illnesses patients in Europe with type II diabetes face. The study, which pulled data from around 224,000 patients with diabetes from North-West London, found that patients were most likely to present with one or more of five conditions when diagnosed as diabetic. The data came from the Discovery-NOW data set, which contains electronic health records (EHR) data from 2.5 million patients.

According to Hospital Healthcare Europe, “The study found that while multimorbidity (two or more chronic conditions) is common in people with T2DM and increasing, the comorbidity profiles vary substantially. Nearly 30% of patients had three or more comorbidities at diagnosis, increasing to 60% of patients ten years later. Depression is the most common emerging, non-traditional, condition and back pain was the third commonest condition overall – neither of these conditions are routinely considered in clinical or prevention guidelines for these patients.”

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(Source: Hospital Healthcare Europe, August 23rd, 2022)