Association of Anxiety With High-Cost Health Care Use Among Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes -

Association of Anxiety With High-Cost Health Care Use Among Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes
Information type: Other primary research
Source: Diabetes Care
Specialities: Diabetes | Mental health and illness
Summary
Review of electronic health record data (143,573 people with type 2 diabetes) found that anxiety is highly comorbid with type 2 diabetes (12.9% incidence), and is positively related to the number of ED visits (RR vs no anxiety diagnosis = 1.27, 95% CI 1.21-1.34).
UKMi comment

Authors highlight that strategies to improve anxiety management among people with diabetes hold the potential to also reduce health care costs.
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