The objective of this observational study was to quantify the incidence of urinary tract infections (UTI) among diabetes patients and compare this risk to patients without diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes patients and a matched sample of patients without diabetes were identified from GPRD. Patients were followed for 1-year from their study index date until the first record of a UTI or a censored event. The incidence of UTI was 46.9 per 1000 person-years (95% confidence interval (CI) 45.8-48.1) among diabetes patients and 29.9 (95% CI 28.9-30.8) for patients without diabetes. Compared to the non-diabetes patients, the risk of UTI was 1.53 (95% CI 1.46-1.59) for all diabetes patients; and 2.08 (95% CI 1.93-2.24) for patients with previously diagnosed diabetes. In general practice, across gender and age, the risk of developing a UTI is higher for patients with type 2 diabetes compared to patients without diabetes.
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Hirji I, Guo Z, Andersson SW, Hammar N, Gomez-Caminero A. Are you the author?
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., USA.
Reference: J Diabetes Complications. 2012 Aug 10. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2012.06.008
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22889712
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