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ArticleThe New England journal of medicine2021

Trends in Diabetes Treatment and Control in U.S. Adults, 1999-2018.

Michael Fang, Dan Wang, Josef Coresh, Elizabeth Selvin

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Article in The New England journal of medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07394075 (Translating Continuous Glucose Monitoring), which is not on this map. Cited by 374 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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NCT07394075 enrolling by invitationnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Translating Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Data Into Action to Improve Management of Insulin-Treated T2D in Primary Care

TypeobservationalSponsorHealthPartners InstituteRan2026 to 2028Enrolled150ConditionsType 2 DiabetesArmsContinuous Glucose Monitoring Clinical Decision Support
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael FangFrom the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research and the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore.ORCID 0000-0003-2849-1780
Dan WangFrom the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research and the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore.
Josef CoreshFrom the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research and the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore.
Elizabeth SelvinFrom the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research and the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

CARDIOVASCULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTIONAL TRAININGT32HL007024 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Elizabeth Selvin · 1985 to 2026
$17.5M
Research and Mentoring in the Clinical Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 DiabetesK24HL152440 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SELVIN, ELIZABETH · 2020 to 2024
$612k
NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL152440NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDocumenting current trends in diabetes treatment and risk-factor control may inform public health policy and planning.

methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional analysis of data from adults with diabetes in the United States participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to assess national trends in diabetes treatment and risk-factor control from 1999 through 2018.

resultsDiabetes control improved from 1999 to the early 2010s among the participants but subsequently stalled and declined. Between the 2007-2010 period and the 2015-2018 period, the percentage of adult NHANES participants with diabetes in whom glycemic control (glycated hemoglobin level, <7%) was achieved declined from 57.4% (95% confidence interval [CI], 52.9 to 61.8) to 50.5% (95% CI, 45.8 to 55.3). After major improvements in lipid control (non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, <130 mg per deciliter) in the early 2000s, minimal improvement was seen from 2007-2010 (52.3%; 95% CI, 49.2 to 55.3) to 2015-2018 (55.7%; 95% CI, 50.8 to 60.5). From 2011-2014 to 2015-2018, the percentage of participants in whom blood-pressure control (<140/90 mm Hg) was achieved decreased from 74.2% (95% CI, 70.7 to 77.4) to 70.4% (95% CI, 66.7 to 73.8). The percentage of participants in whom all three targets were simultaneously achieved plateaued after 2010 and was 22.2% (95% CI, 17.9 to 27.3) in 2015-2018. The percentages of participants who used any glucose-lowering medication or any blood-pressure-lowering medication were unchanged after 2010, and the percentage who used statins plateaued after 2014. After 2010, the use of combination therapy declined in participants with uncontrolled blood pressure and plateaued for those with poor glycemic control.

conclusionsAfter more than a decade of progress from 1999 to the early 2010s, glycemic and blood-pressure control declined in adult NHANES participants with diabetes, while lipid control leveled off. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.).

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AdultAgedAge FactorsAntihypertensive AgentsBody WeightCholesterolCross-Sectional StudiesDiabetes MellitusDrug Therapy, CombinationDrug UtilizationFemaleGlycated HemoglobinHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsHypoglycemic AgentsMaleAntihypertensive AgentsCholesterolGlycated HemoglobinHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsHypoglycemic Agents

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PMID34107181
PMCPMC8385648
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