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This study is being conducted to assess the risk of hepatitis B (HepB) diagnosis among diabetes mellitus (DM) and non-DM patients of 0-80 years of age with in a large population-based cohort in United Kingdom (UK) using data from the CPRD database.
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The study is a retrospective, observational, descriptive, cohort study, in DM and non-DM patients of 0-80 years of age. As a first step the eligible baseline population from CPRD will be defined as per the data quality qualifiers, which include subjects aged 0-80 years, "acceptable for research" registered in practices classified as "up to standard" by the CPRD for the time period 2000- 2012. The following cohorts will be defined from the baseline population:
From the above defined cohorts, HepB cases will be identified based on clinical diagnosis codes, Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) or positive diagnostic laboratory tests results.
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Subjects, 0 to 80 years of age during the study period.
Subjects acceptable for research as per CPRD definition:
Subjects with at least 12 months of observation time at the time of inclusion in the study:
Particular Case of New Born Children.
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• For the analyses requiring the inclusion of HES data, HES records linked with more than one CPRD patient will be excluded from the analyses.
161,429 participants in 2 patient groups
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