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Table 2 Effect of Birmingham Own Health® Intervention on HbA1c values among people with diabetes

From: An evaluation of Birmingham Own Health®telephone care management service among patients with poorly controlled diabetes. a retrospective comparison with the General Practice Research Database

 

Intervention

Control

Multivariate linear

regression coefficients

(95%CI)

N

296

3454

 

Mean age (years) (SD)

61.6 (13.1)

63.5 (11.6)

-0.007 (-0.01, -0.004)

Males (n (%))

155 (52.4%)

1828 (52.9%)

-0.03 (-0.10, 0.04)

Smoking status

   

Never smoker

118 (39.9)

1403 (40.6%)

1.0

Ex-smoker

88 (29.7)

1601 (46.4%)

0.008 (-0.07, 0.08)

Current smoker

42 (14.2%)

450 (13.0%)

0.02 (-0.08, 0.13)

Unknown

48 (16.2%)

-

 

Length of follow-up (days)

   

Mean (SD)

331.9 (136.2)

336.3 (132.9)

0.0002 (-0.0001,

Median (IQR)

328 (216-449)

345 (219-441)

0.0004)

Baseline HbA1c (%) Mean (SD)

8.2 (1.8)

7.7 (1.5)

0.70 (0.68, 0.73)

Sub-groups (n (%))

   

< 7.0%

73 (24.7%)

1156 (33.5%)

 

7.0-7.9%

86 (29.1%)

1106 (32.0%)

 

8.0-8.9%

59 (19.9%)

620 (18.0%)

 

> 9.0%

78 (26.4%)

572 (16.6%)

 

Final value (mean) (SD)

7.8 (1.6)

7.7 (1.5)

 

Mean change (SD)

-0.4 (1.4)

-0.03 (1.1)

 

Difference in final values (intervention - control) (95% CI)

+0.11 (-0.07, 0.29)

 

Adjusted mean difference in final HbA1c values between intervention and control (%) (95%CI)*

-0.25 (-0.38, -0.11)

Adjusted mean difference in final HbA1c values between intervention and control by sub-group of baseline values (95%CI) (%)

 

< 7.0%

0.2 (-0.01, 0.4)

7.0-7.9%

-0.3 (-0.6, -0.1)

8.0-8.9%

-0.3 (-0.6, 0.1)

> 9.0%

-0.6 (-1.0, -0.2)

  1. * adjusted for age, sex, baseline values, smoking status, length of follow-up