Table 2 Effect of comorbidity of patients with diabetes on medical health care utilization adjusted for age, gender, educational level and GP practice specified for type of comorbidity with the patient group without comorbidity as reference group (coefficient and 95% confidence interval (CI) and Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% CI (n = 7,499))

3.9

(3.6, 4.3)

10.3

(9.7, 10.9)

18.0

(16.9, 19.1)

4.6

(4.1, 5.2)

4.7

(4.2, 5.1)

12.4

(11.7, 13.0)

*

*

*

*

*

*

6.9

(5.9, 7.9)

19.2

(17.6, 20.8)

35.9

(33.0, 38.7)

11.7

(10.3, 13.2)

7.0

(5.9, 8.0)

23.4

(21.7, 25.2)

2.4

(2.1, 2.8)

3.7

(3.1, 4.6)

5.6

(4.0, 7.9)

1.7

(1.4, 2.1)

2.9

(2.5, 3.3)

4.3

(3.5, 5.4)

0.4

(0.3, 0.4)

0.8

(0.7,0.9)

1.3

(1.1, 1.5)

0.2

(0.1, 0.3)

0.5

(0.4, 0.6)

1.0

(0.8, 1.1)

3.4

(2.9, 4.2)

6.4

(5.1, 8.2)

9.8

(6.8, 14.0)

3.3

(2.5, 4.2)

3.8

(3.2, 4.6)

7.7

(6.0, 9.9)

0.3

(0.2, 0.3)

0.6

(0.5, 0.7)

0.9

(0.8, 1.1)

0.3

(0.2, 0.4)

0.3

(0.2, 0.4)

0.7

(0.6, 0.8)

0.6

(0.4, 0.7)

1.4

(1.1, 1.7)

3.0

(2.5, 3.6)

0.7

(0.4, 0.9)

0.6

(0.4, 0.9)

2.1

(1.8, 2.4)

1.5

(1.1, 2.0)

4.5

(3.7, 5.2)

9.1

(7.8, 10.4)

2.2

(1.5, 2.8)

1.7

(1.2, 2.2)

5.9

(5.1, 6.7)