Table 2.

Mortality rate and mortality rate ratios over time for T2D patients and age- and sex-matched comparators.

		Type 2 diabetes patients						Comparators
Period of diagnosis	Persons N	Risk time (years)	Events N	Mortality Rate/1000 py	rate ratio (95% CI) – crude	rate ratio (95% CI) – adjusted*	Persons N	Events N	Mortality Rate/1000 py		rate ratio (95% CI) - crude	rate ratio (95% CI) – adjusted*
1995-1997	34790	441244	24992	69.49 (67.31-71.73)	1 (1-1)	1 (1-1)	172546	89778	35.69 (35.04-36.35)		1 (1-1)	1 (1-1)
1998-2000	40068	484218	25779	64.05 (62.06-66.12)	0.94 (0.92-0.96)	0.92 (0.91-0.94)	199171	89779	33.96 (33.34-34.58)		0.93 (0.93-0.94)	0.95 (0.94-0.96)
2001-2003	46948	530348	25432	57.73 (55.93-59.59)	0.85 (0.83-0.86)	0.83 (0.82-0.85)	233371	87018	32.55 (31.96-33.15)		0.85 (0.85-0.86)	0.91 (0.9-0.92)
2004-2006	53897	544638	23378	52.63 (50.97-54.34)	0.76 (0.74-0.77)	0.76 (0.74-0.77)	267430	78797	30.26 (29.71-30.83)		0.77 (0.76-0.77)	0.85 (0.84-0.86)
2007-2009	61182	519800	19920	45.46 (44-46.96)	0.68 (0.66-0.69)	0.65 (0.64-0.67)	303373	65827	27.19 (26.68-27.7)		0.68 (0.68-0.69)	0.76 (0.75-0.77)
2010-2012	71653	467392	16264	37.98 (36.73-39.27)	0.61 (0.6-0.63)	0.55 (0.54-0.56)	355366	53872	24.15 (23.68-24.61)		0.63 (0.62-0.64)	0.68 (0.67-0.68)
2013-2015	51680	208681	8536	41.68 (40.17-43.25)	0.72 (0.7-0.74)	0.6 (0.58-0.62)	255866	22602	21.1 (20.65-21.57)		0.58 (0.57-0.59)	0.59 (0.58-0.6)
2016-2018	55328	80428	3727	48.08 (46-50.26)	0.82 (0.79-0.85)	0.69 (0.67-0.72)	273121	7419	19.33 (18.78-19.89)		0.5 (0.49-0.52)	0.54 (0.53-0.55)

^⁎Adjusted for age, sex and comorbidity. Abbreviations: py, person years; CI, confidence intervals.