Association between sex, age, temporal trends, and glycemic control of 221,769 adults with type 2 diabetes in a multi-ethnic middle-income Asian country

Ang SH 1 , Lim LL 2 , Mustapha FI 3 , Ahmad E 4 , Rampal S 5

Affiliations 

  • 1 Institute for Clinical Research, National Institutes of Health, Ministry of Health, Malaysia; Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Asia Diabetes Foundation, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 3 Perak State Health Department, Ministry of Health, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia
  • 4 Sector for Prevention & Control of NCD, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Malaysia
  • 5 Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: srampal@um.edu.my
Diabetes Res Clin Pract, 2024 Dec 30;220:111976.
PMID: 39742922 DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2024.111976

Abstract

AIMS: We examined the association between sex, age, temporal trends, and glycemic control among people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in a multi-ethnic middle-income Asian country.

METHODS: Using the National Diabetes Registry (2011-2020), we analyzed data for 221,769 adult Malaysians with T2D.We used quantile regressions to estimate the association of sex, age, and their interaction on HbA1clevels at the 5th, 50th, and 95thpercentile and logistic regression to estimate the odds of good control (HbA1c 

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