Diabetes in Finland (FinDM)

The cohort of persons with diabetes (1964-2023) has been identified from several administrative registers. Follow-up data has been collected until 2023.

Objectives

The aim of the project is to follow trends in the incidence and prevalence of diabetes, its complications and their determinants and to analyse the use of health services, outcomes and costs of care and factors influencing them.

Implementation

The project is executed in several sub-projects together with researchers from different universities and research institutes. The subprojects include several studies concerning incidence of outcomes and complications, the association with diabetes medication to complications and costs of diabetes care and its determinants.

Partners

The collaborators include the Finnish Diabetes Association and the Universities of Helsinki, Tampere, Oulu and Eastern Finland. The project has international research collaboration.

Funding

The database has been compiled in cooperation with the Social Insurance Institution and The Finnish Diabetes Association. All subprojects have separate funding.

Contact information

Martti Arffman
Statistical Researcher
tel.+358 2952 47274
E-mail: [email protected]