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ArticlePharmacoEconomics2019

Performance of the UKPDS Outcomes Model 2 for Predicting Death and Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from a German Population-Based Cohort.

Michael Laxy, Verena Maria Schöning, Christoph Kurz, Rolf Holle, Annette Peters, Christa Meisinger, Wolfgang Rathmann, Kristin Mühlenbruch, Katharina Kähm

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  1. Prognostic models for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in type 2 diabetes: Systematic review.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2026
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  6. Using QALYs as an Outcome for Assessing Global Prediction Accuracy in Diabetes Simulation Models.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2025
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  9. Performance of the UK Prospective Diabetes Study Outcomes Model 2 in a Contemporary UK Type 2 Diabetes Trial Cohort.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2022
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Michael LaxyInstitute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany. michael.laxy@helmholtz-muenchen.de.
Verena Maria SchöningInstitute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
Christoph KurzInstitute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
Rolf HolleInstitute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
Annette PetersInstitute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
Christa MeisingerInstitute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
Wolfgang RathmannInstitute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Kristin MühlenbruchDepartment of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany.
Katharina KähmInstitute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.

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objectiveAccurate prediction of relevant outcomes is important for targeting therapies and to support health economic evaluations of healthcare interventions in patients with diabetes. The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) risk equations are some of the most frequently used risk equations. This study aims to analyze the calibration and discrimination of the updated UKPDS risk equations as implemented in the UKPDS Outcomes Model 2 (UKPDS-OM2) for predicting cardiovascular (CV) events and death in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) from population-based German samples.

methodsAnalyses are based on data of 456 individuals diagnosed with T2DM who participated in two population-based studies in southern Germany (KORA (Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg)-A: 1997/1998, n = 178; KORA-S4: 1999-2001, n = 278). We compared the participants' 10-year observed incidence of mortality, CV mortality, myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke with the predicted event rate of the UKPDS-OM2. The model's calibration was evaluated by Greenwood-Nam-D'Agostino tests and discrimination was evaluated by C-statistics.

resultsOf the 456 participants with T2DM (mean age 65 years, mean diabetes duration 8 years, 56% male), over the 10-year follow-up time 129 died (61 due to CV events), 64 experienced an MI, and 46 a stroke. The UKPDS-OM2 significantly over-predicted mortality and CV mortality by 25% and 28%, respectively (Greenwood-Nam-D'Agostino tests: p < 0.01), but there was no significant difference between predicted and observed MI and stroke risk. The model poorly discriminated for death (C-statistic [95% confidence interval] = 0.64 [0.60-0.69]), CV death (0.64 [0.58-0.71]), and MI (0.58 [0.52-0.66]), and failed to discriminate for stroke (0.57 [0.47-0.66]).

conclusionsThe study results demonstrate acceptable calibration and poor discrimination of the UKPDS-OM2 for predicting death and CV events in this population-based German sample. Those limitations should be considered when using the UKPDS-OM2 for economic evaluations of healthcare strategies or using the risk equations for clinical decision-making.

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Models, StatisticalCohort StudiesComputer SimulationCost-Benefit AnalysisDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2FemaleGermanyHumansIncidenceMaleMyocardial InfarctionProspective StudiesRisk FactorsStrokeTreatment Outcome

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