Quantifying the impact of inequality on traditional and emerging diabetes complications: A registry study of cause-specific hospital admissions and deaths in Australia
Authors' conclusion
Increasing socioeconomic disadvantage was associated with an increased risk of admission or death from most traditional diabetes-related complications and for respiratory disease. However, the associations with emerging complications of diabetes were weaker, null, or the risk decreased with increasing disadvantage.
Study context
- Population
- People with T2D from the Australian National Diabetes Services Scheme, follow-up July 2010 to June 2022
- Participants
- 621,114 people
- Exposure
- Per 1-SD increase in socioeconomic disadvantage
- Outcome
- Cause-specific outcomes (first occurrence of admission or death) for a range of diabetes complications
Methodological detailslinked hospital admission and death datasets, Poisson regression adjusted for age, sex and year
- Linked hospital admission and death datasets
- Poisson regression adjusted for age, sex and year
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Admission or death, IRR per 1-SD increase in socioeconomic disadvantage
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, IRR
- 1.19 (1.18, 1.21) (95% CI)
- MI, IRR
- 1.12 (1.11, 1.13)
- HF, IRR
- 1.11 (1.10, 1.12)
- Cellulitis, IRR
- 1.10 (1.09, 1.12)
- End-stage kidney disease, IRR
- 1.09 (1.07, 1.12)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Quantifying the impact of inequality on traditional and emerging diabetes complications: A registry study of cause-specific hospital admissions and deaths in Australia. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. Published 25 January 2026. doi:10.
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