Table 1.
Socio-demographic and clinical profile of regular patients† aged 18+ years in the database
| Variables | All adults in MedicineInsight (N=1 007 714) | Patients with diabetes | |
| Past recorded diabetes (n=101 875) | Newly recorded diabetes (n=9236) | ||
| % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | ||
| Practice characteristics | |||
| Geographical area of GP | |||
| Major cities | 63.8 (59.4 to 68.2) | 59.4 (54.6 to 64.2) | 62.3 (57.2 to 67.4) |
| Inner regional | 24.8 (20.6 to 28.9) | 27.4 (22.8 to 32.1) | 25.0 (20.4 to 29.7) |
| Outer regional/remote/very remote | 11.4 (8.5 to 14.4) | 13.2 (9.8 to 16.5) | 12.6 (9.1 to 16.0) |
| GP IRSAD | |||
| More disadvantaged | 33.8 (32.4 to 35.2) | 39.2 (34.0 to 44.4) | 38.3 (33.0 to 43.7) |
| Middle | 23.7 (22.4 to 25.1) | 25.0 (20.3 to 29.6) | 24.6 (19.8 to 29.4) |
| More advantaged | 43.8 (42.5 to 45.1) | 36.6 (32.1 to 41.0) | 38.1 (33.5 to 42.8) |
| Patient’s characteristics | |||
| Gender | |||
| Male | 40.4 (39.9 to 40.9) | 52.4 (51.9 to 53.0) | 44.0 (42.7 to 45.4) |
| Age, mean±SD | 54.0±19.1 | 65.9±14.6 | 58.1±17.1 |
| Age group (years) | |||
| 18–39 | 26.2 (25.1 to 27.2) | 5.8 (5.4 to 6.2) | 15.8 (14.6 to 17.1) |
| 40–64 | 40.9 (40.4 to 41.4) | 34.9 (34.0 to 35.7) | 43.0 (41.7 to 44.4) |
| 65+ | 33.0 (31.7 to 34.2) | 59.4 (58.2 to 60.5) | 41.2 (39.5 to 42.9) |
| Smoking status | |||
| Smoker | 12.0 (11.6 to 12.4) | 10.5 (10.1 to 10.8) | 10.8 (10.0 to 11.5) |
| History of hypertension | |||
| Yes | 19.0 (18.5 to 19.5) | 35.0 (33.9 to 36.2) | 36.8 (35.4 to 38.3) |
| History of CVD | |||
| Yes | 5.3 (5.2 to 5.4) | 13.2 (12.8 to 13.5) | 12.5 (11.7 to 13.3) |
| History of dyslipidaemia | |||
| Yes | 11.0 (10.5 to 11.4) | 17.6 (16.7 to 18.6) | 20.2 (19.0 to 21.3) |
| History of CKD | |||
| Yes | 1.3 (1.2 to 1.4) | 4.7 (4.3 to 5.1) | 2.9 (2.5 to 3.4) |
| History of liver disease | |||
| Yes | 0.2 (0.2 to 0.2) | 0.5 (0.5 to 0.6) | 0.6 (0.5 to 0.8) |
| History of depressive symptoms | |||
| Yes | 20.7 (20.1 to 21.4) | 18.4 (17.6 to 19.1) | 20.9 (19.9 to 22.0) |
| Consultations in 2018, median (IQR) | 4 (2–8) | 7 (4–13) | 6 (3–11) |
All results were adjusted for differences between these two groups in terms of practice characteristics (remoteness, IRSAD quintiles), patient socio-demographics (gender, age) or clinical characteristics (smoking status, history of hypertension, CVD, CKD, dyslipidaemia, liver disease and depressive symptoms).
†People had at least one visit per year between 2015 and 2018.
CKD, chronic kidney disease; CVD, cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure, ischaemic heart disease and stroke; GP, general practitioner; IRSAD, Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage.