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Table 2 Description of the study population, with and without pharmacologically treated diabetes, in 2009 and 2014

From: The prevalence and incidence of pharmacologically treated diabetes among older people receiving home care services in Norway 2009–2014: a nationwide longitudinal study

Variable

Not DMa

2009

DMa

2009

pb

Not DMa

2014

DMa

2014

pb

N

96,480

16,007

 

10,5841

19,752

 

Women, n (%)

64,807 (67.2)

9584 (59.9)

 < 0.001

69,707 (65.9)

10,969 (55.5)

 < 0.001

Age, mean (SD)

82.3 (6.9)

80.5 (7.0)

 < 0.001

82.1 (7.4)

79.9 (7.4)

 < 0.001

Age group n (%)

 65–69

6674 (6.9)

1485 (9.3)

 < 0.001c

9481 (9.0)

2429 (12.3)

 < 0.001c

 70–74

8556 (8.9)

1920 (12.0)

 

10,425 (9.9)

2772 (14.0)

 

 75–79

14,163 (14.7)

3063 (19.1)

 

14,196 (13.4)

3510 (17.8)

 

 80–84

22,481 (23.3)

4137 (25.8)

 

21,770 (20.6)

4623 (23.4)

 

 85–89

26,913 (27.9)

3768 (23.5)

 

26,239 (24.8)

4015 (20.3)

 

 90 + 

17,693 (18.3)

1634 (10.2)

 

23,730 (22.4)

2403 (12.2)

 

Living alone, n (%)

54,314 (63.4)

8450 (58.9)

 < 0.001

62,664 (63.6)

10,625 (57.5)

 < 0.001

Hours of HCSd, median (IQR)

52 (13–157)

60 (18–189)

 < 0.001

52 (14–160)

62 (18–187)

 < 0.001

  1. a DM = Diabetes mellitus, defined as a person registered in the The Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) with at least one prescription of Insulins and analogues (A10A) or Blood glucose lowering drugs, excl. insulin (A10B) in the current or previous year
  2. b T–tests, chi-square tests and median test are used to investigate the difference between those with and without pharmacologically treated diabetes in 2009 and in 2014, respectively
  3. c p-value reflect test of overall difference
  4. d HCS = Home care services