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Introduction Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major disease burden worldwide because it is associated with disabling and lethal complications. DM complication risk assessment and stratification is key to cost-effective management and tertiary prevention for patients with diabetes in primary care. Existing risk prediction functions were found to be inaccurate in Chinese patients with diabetes in primary care. This study aims to develop 10-year risk prediction models for total cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and all-cause mortality among Chinese patients with DM in primary care.
Methods and analysis A 10-year cohort study on a population-based primary care cohort of Chinese patients with diabetes, who were receiving care in the Hospital Authority General Outpatient Clinic on or before 1 January 2008, were identified from the clinical management system database of the Hospital Authority. All patients with complete baseline risk factors will be included and followed from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2017 for the development and validation of prediction models. The analyses will be carried out separately for men and women. Two-thirds of subjects will be randomly selected as the training sample for model development. Cox regressions will be used to develop 10-year risk prediction models of total CVD and all-cause mortality. The validity of models will be tested on the remaining one-third of subjects by Harrell’s C-statistics and calibration plot. Risk prediction models for diabetic complications specific to Chinese patients in primary care will enable accurate risk stratification, prioritisation of resources and more cost-effective interventions for patients with DM in primary care.
Ethics and dissemination The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong—the Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster (reference number: UW 15–258).
Trial registration number NCT03299010; Pre-results.
- diabetes mellitus
- risk
- complications
- mortality
- cardiovascular diseases
- Chinese
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Contributors CLKL is the principal investigator of the study. CLKL and EYFW initially conceived the study. EYFW, EYTY, WYC, CSCF, DYTF and CLKL helped with the design and implementation of the programmes, coordination of the study, drafted and revised the manuscript. EYFW, EYTY, WYC, CSCF, RLPK, DVKC, KHC, EM-TH, WWST, KCBT, DYTF and CLKL revised the manuscript. All authors approved the final version.
Funding This study has been funded by the Health and Medical Research Fund, Food and Health Bureau, HKSAR (Project no: 14151181).
Disclaimer No funding organisation had any role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; and preparation of the manuscript. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Not required.
Ethics approval Ethics approval of this study was granted by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/ Hospital Authority Hong Kong West (UW 15-258).
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.