Relation between cost of drug treatment and body mass index in people with type 2 diabetes in Latin America

GONZALEZ, LORENA; GAGLIARDINO, JUAN JOSE; PRESTES, MARIANA; RUCCI, ENZO; ELGART, JORGE FEDERICO

PLOS ONE

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE

Año: 2017 vol. 12 p. 1 - 12

1932-6203

AIMS:Despite the frequent association of obesity with type 2 diabetes (T2D), the effect of the former on the cost of drug treatment of the latest has not been specifically addressed. We studied the association of overweight/obesity on the cost of drug treatment of hyperglycemia, hypertension and dyslipidemia in a population with T2D.METHODS:This observational study utilized data from the QUALIDIAB database on 3,099 T2D patients seen in Diabetes Centers in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Data were grouped according to body mass index (BMI) as Normal (18.5≤BMI