Diabetes in Finland (FinDM) project examines trends in the incidence, prevalence, care, effectiveness and costs of diabetes and its complications.
The cohort of persons with diabetes (1964–2023) has been identified from several administrative registers. Follow-up data has been collected until 2023.
FinDM project collaborates with Diabetes Register (national quality register). FinDM participates in international diabetes research networks (EUBIROD, GLOBODIAB).
Goals
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 associated factors.
Implementation
The project is executed in several sub-projects together with researchers from different universities and research institutes. Current subprojects include several studies concerning incidence of outcomes, complications and associated factors, the association with diabetes medication to comorbidities and costs of diabetes care and its determinants.
Funding
The database has been compiled and managed in cooperation with the Finnish Diabetes Association and previously with Social Insurance Institution. All subprojects have separate funding.
Partners
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) currently has collaborative agreements including shared register holdership with three universities on the project: University of Eastern Finland, Tampere University and University of Oulu.
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