Table 1.

Patient data and demographic indicators by sex and province, and regional economic indicators

	B	K	N	O	Sa	St	T	V	W	Austria
Population size in 2009	283,506	560,056	1,606,615	1,411,041	529,314	1,207,588	704,792	368,061	1,692,067	8,363,040
Treated patients*	14,580	19,206	70,934	49,171	16,459	45,874	19,323	10,267	80,184	325,998
Treatments/population	0.0514	0.0343	0.0442	0.0348	0.0311	0.0380	0.0274	0.0279	0.0474	0.0390
Females	144,873	288,435	819,692	717,855	272,306	617,807	360,087	186,756	882,363	4,290,174
Treated patients, female	7,843	9,935	36,037	25,090	8,400	23,959	9,885	5,157	40,128	166,434
Treatments/population, female	0.0541	0.0344	0.0440	0.0350	0.0308	0.0388	0.0275	0.0276	0.0455	0.0388
Males	138,633	271,621	786,923	693,186	257,008	589,781	344,705	181,305	809,704	4,072,866
Treated patients, male	6,737	9,271	34,897	24,081	8,059	21,915	9,438	5,110	40,056	159,564
Treatments/population, male	0.0486	0.0341	0.0443	0.0347	0.0314	0.0372	0.0274	0.0282	0.0495	0.0392
Sex ratio, treatment/population†	0.8976	0.9909	1.0087	0.9939	1.0165	0.9582	0.9974	1.0207	1.0878	1.0103
kf‡	−0.69	−0.42	−0.50	−0.42	−0.41	−0.53	−0.45	−0.30	−0.43	−0.46
km‡	−0.62	−0.36	−0.48	−0.35	−0.34	−0.45	−0.37	−0.29	−0.60	−0.45
df§	1,354	823	986	830	814	1,045	881	590	855	911
dm§	1,222	707	949	681	674	879	720	578	1190	882
GRP pp in €1,000	1.1	1.5	1.6	1.8	1.9	1.6	1.7	1.9	2.5	1.8
Unemployment rate, %	11.5	5.2	3.5	2.6	2.3	3.6	2.8	0.8	1.8	2.9
Income pp, €	210	340	360	410	370	390	400	420	750	407

Economic indicators include GRP in units of €1,000 for the year 1961 (the last year of the fit of the trend lines), the regional unemployment rates in 1961, and the income per person in EUR of the year 1957. Provinces: B, Burgenland; K, Carinthia; N, Lower Austria; O, Upper Austria; Sa, Salzburg; St, Styria; T, Tyrol; V, Vorarlberg; W, Vienna.

*Total number of patients who received a drug treatment for diabetes.

^†Sex ratio is defined in Materials and Methods.

^‡Slopes of the trend lines for males (m) and females (f).

^§Intercepts.