Monitoring the occurrence of diabetes mellitus and its major complications: the combined use of different administrative databases

Table 3 Hospitalisation* and mortality in diabetic subjects, by age and gender.

		45–64 years		65–74 years		Over 74 years
		males	females	males	females	males	females
All hospitalisations	Rates	376	363	569	417	668	527
	RR	2.04	2.04	1.33	1.47	1.07	1.19
	95% ci	1.99–2.08	1.99–2.1	1.31–1.35	1.43–1.50	1.05–1.08	1.17–1.21
Ischemic heart disease	Rates	29.3	11.1	36.8	22.4	37.4	27.9
	RR	3.37	7.36	1.72	3.26	1.18	1.72
	95% ci	3.06–3.7	5.98–9.04	1.56–1.90	2.83–3.75	1.05–1.32	1.55–1.91
Acute myocardial infarction	Rates	8.1	3	8.9	5.1	13	11.1
	RR	3.22	6.21	1.76	2.58	1.23	1.74
	95% ci	2.69–3.85	4.2–9.19	1.43–2.17	1.94–3.45	1.01–1.5	1.48–2.06
Heart failure	Rates	9.2	4.1	21.9	13	39.3	34.7
	RR	6.14	9.28	2.55	3.15	1.23	1.42
	95% ci	5.11–7.36	6.52–13.19	2.22–2.93	2.62–3.79	1.09–1.38	1.29–1.55
Cerebrovascular diseases	Rates	13.2	9.2	32.6	19.1	37.3	35.4
	RR	3.64	4.61	2.03	2.34	0.95	1.28
	95% ci	3.16–4.19	3.71–5.72	1.82–2.26	2.02–2.71	0.58–1.06	1.17–1.40
Stroke	Rates	6.2	4.2	12.5	7.3	15.3	16.5
	RR	3.64	4.81	1.88	2.28	0.88	1.20
	95% ci	2.96–4.48	3.48–6.66	1.58–2.25	1.79–2.89	0.74–1.06	1.05–1.37
Peripheral vascular diseases	Rates	20.2	8.7	34.6	8.8	35.7	14.9
	RR	7.25	10.48	2.49	2.84	1.7	2.17
	95% ci	6.4–8.22	8.21–13.37	2.24–2.78	2.27–3.55	1.5–1.92	1.87–2.51
Low limb amputations	Rates	6.7	2.8	6.2	1.7	6	4.7
	RR	13.01	10.27	6.1	2.85	2.38	3.04
	95% ci	10.16–16.66	6.68–15.78	4.47–8.31	1.72–4.7	1.73–3.27	2.31–3.99
Kidney diseases	Rates	11.3	8.5	13.6	7.8	10.7	8
	RR	6.04	6.21	2.75	2.8	0.97	1.88
	95% ci	5.13–7.12	4.93–7.83	2.31–3.29	2.21–3.54	0.78–1.21	1.54–2.28
Mortality	Rates	9.23	6.93	26.4	16.1	83.6	63.4
	RR	1.72	2.62	1.1	1.86	0.98	1.02
	95% ci	1.58–1.88	2.29–2.97	1.02–1.21	1.74–1.98	0.91–1.06	0.94–1.11

* Rates (*1000) in diabetics and relative risk with 95% confidence interval (respect to non diabetics)

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