Fig. 4: Survival trajectories for each diabetic data definition and the overall survival for all patients in the all cancer cohort. | British Journal of Cancer

Fig. 4: Survival trajectories for each diabetic data definition and the overall survival for all patients in the all cancer cohort.

From: Why NHS hospital co-morbidity research may be wrong: how clinical coding fails to identify the impact of diabetes mellitus on cancer survival

Fig. 4

Survival curves have been plotted for cox models generated using only all patients, coded diabetic patients, abnormal HbA1c patients and diabetic patients identified by the hybrid method. In all cases estimates were adjusted for potential age, sex and deprivation confounding.

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