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Table 2 Percentage of individuals with type 2 diabetes receiving specific processes of care by ethnicity and gender

From: Ethnic and gender differences in the management of type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study from Norwegian general practice

Features recorded in electronic health records % (95% CI)

Ethnicity

Westerners

Eastern Europeans

Eastern Asians

South Asians

MENA a

Eastern Africans

Men, n

4698

103

76

430

200

80

 HbA1c

89.2 (87.4 to 91.0)

86.5 (78.8 to 94.2)

88.8 (81.5 to 96.1)

92.8 (89.9 to 95.7)

89.2 (84.4 to 94.0)

89.2 (82.1 to 96.4)

 Blood pressure

89.0 (87.4 to 90.6)

82.3 (73.9 to 90.8)

90.2 (83.4 to 96.9)

91.6 (88.5 to 94.7)

87.6 (82.8 to 92.6)

84.3 (75.9 to 92.7)

 LDL-cholesterol

68.7 (64.7 to 72.8)

71.6 (60.8 to 82.4)

72.8 (60.9 to 84.7)

73.1 (66.7 to 79.4)

73.7 (65.9 to 81.6)

66.4 (53.6 to 79.2)

 Creatinine/ e-GFR

82.13 (80.6 to 85.6)

80.0 (71.0 to 89.0)

82.9 (74.4 to 91.8)

84.3 (79.8 to 88.9)

83.7 (78.0 to 89.5)

84.9 (76.9 to 93.0)

 Albuminuria

23.4 (17.0 to 29.9)

25.0 (13.5 to 36.5)

25.4 (13.2 to 37.7)

17.6 (11.1 to 24.2)

22.4 (13.5 to 31.2)

25.0 (12.5 to 37.5)

 Body height

75.8 (71.1 to 80.6)

64.8 (52.9 to 76.8)

67.8 (55.2 to 80.5)

62.3 (43.0 to 70.3)*

59.5 (48.8 to 68.3)*

51.9 (37.9 to 66.0)*

 Body weight

58.1 (52.5 to 63.7)

42.7 (30.3 to 55.2)

48.1 (34.3 to 61.8)

43.9 (35.9 to 51.9)*

40.0 (30.4 to 49.5)*

43.8 (30.0 to 57.5)

 Eye examination

60.7 (57.9 to 63.6)

61.8 (51.8 to 71.8)

62.1 (51.6 to 72.6)

62.4 (56.9 to 68.0)

56.4 (48.9 to 63.8)

67.0 (56.4 to 77.6)

 Foot examinations

30.3 (26.6 to 34.0)

24.9 (15.0 to 34.9)

22.4 (11.4 to 33.4)

25.6 (19.3 to 31.8)

24.8 (17.1 to 32.4)

24.6 (13.3 to 35.9)

 Smoking habits

85.8 (83.0 to 88.7)

83.0 (74.3 to 91.6)

88.0 (79.9 to 96.0)

81.0 (75.2 to 86.7)

85.5 (79.5 to 91.5)

61.4 (47.8 to 75.1)*

Women, n

3797

81

142

368

140

46

 HbA1c

91.3 (90.1 to 92.5)

86.2 (77.3 to 95.2)

89.2 (83.2 to 95.2)

91.9 (88.0 to 95.7)

93.7 (88.3 to 99.2)

79.7 (63.7 to 95.5)

 Blood pressure

88.7 (87.4 to 90.1)

90.7 (83.6 to 97.9)

89.6 (84.1 to 95.1)

87.1 (82.6 to 91.7)

91.6 (86.2 to 97.1)

85.2 (72.9 to 97.5)

 LDL-cholesterol

70.0 (66.3 to 73.8)

59.5 (45.9 to 73.2)

66.7 (56.86 to 76.6)

65.2 (57.6 to 72.8)

62.8 (51.6 to 74.1)

51.7 (32.5 to 70.9)

 Creatinine/ e-GFR

87.0 (85.0 to 89.1)

82.7 (73.1 to 92.3)

84.7 (78.1 to 91.3)

86.9 (82.2 to 91.6)

85.0 (77.6 to 92.4)

77.5 (62.5 to 92.4)

 Albuminuria

23.6 (17.9 to 29.3)

19.7 (9.2 to 30.2)

23.1 (13.9 to 32.3)

23.7 (16.1 to 31.3)

19.3 (10.6 to 28.0)

19.9 (6.0 to 33.9)

 Body height

72.6 (68.1 to 77.1)

76.9 (65.8 to 87.7)

69.7 (60.0 to 79.4)

63.9 (55.9 to 71.9)

66.8 (55.7 to 77.9)

68.3 (49.5 to 87.0)

 Body weight

53.1 (47.4 to 58.7)

56.3 (42.7 to 69.9)

43.4 (32.7 to 54.0)

49.0 (40.7 to 57.3)

51.7 (40.2 to 63.2)

41.6 (23.7 to 59.5)

 Eye examination

63.1 (64.0 to 66.0)

53.5 (41.5 to 65.4)

73.0 (65.4 to 80.7)

65.0 (59.1 to 70.9)

66.1 (57.5 to 74.8)

69.2 (54.7 to 83.7)

 Foot examination

29.3 (25.3 to 33.3)

25.1 (13.0 to 37.1)

25.7 (16.5 to 34.9)

24.7 (17.8 to 31.5)

24.5 (14.5 to 43.5)

25.8 (9.3 to 42.3)

 Smoking habits

82.7 (79.4 to 85.9)

83.5 (73.7 to 93.4)

66.5 (65.3 to 76.7)*

55.3 (46.9 to 63.7)*

46.4 (34.9 to 57.8)*

42.5 (23.8 to 61.1)*

  1. a MENA: Middle Easterners/North Africans. Multilevel binary regression models with random effects at general practice level were used to compare the ethnic differences with Westerners as reference, adjusted for individual level characteristics (age, diabetes duration and education), general practitioner level characteristics (gender, specialist status and years working as general practitioner in Norway) and county of residence in Norway. * No overlap in 95% CIs, indicating significant difference between Westerners and the particular minority group