| NHS | 1989-90 | 1995 | 2001 |
Question description
| Included in Q230, "- DO YOU HAVE ANY CONDITIONS LIKE THESE?"
Prompt card 5 was shown which included "DIABETES OR HIGH BLOOD SUGAR (Specify)" among a list of 41 conditions. | Q417 asked "HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TOLD BY A DOCTOR OR NURSE THAT YOU HAVE-
DIABETES
HIGH SUGAR LEVELS IN YOUR BLOOD OR URINE?"
Subsequent questions 418-420 establish whether the diabetes/high sugar levels are still current and the type of diabetes.
Q420 asked "WHAT TYPE OF DIABETES WERE YOU TOLD YOU HAVE?"
Response categories included:
"Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (Type 1)". | Q500 asked "...HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TOLD BY A DOCTOR OR NURSE THAT YOU HAVE-
DIABETES
HIGH SUGAR LEVELS IN YOUR BLOOD OR URINE?"
Subsequent questions 501-508 establish age of diagnosis, type of diabetes/high sugar levels, whether the diabetes/high sugar levels are still current and long-term.
Response categories included:
"Type 1 (Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, Juvenile Onset Diabetes)". |
| ICD-9 codes | 250.1 |
| NHS codes | . . | 078 | 688,947 |
| Notes | Cannot separate into types of diabetes. | Need to select diabetes as a "current" condition. |  |
| Estimate '000 | . . | 79.1 | 95.2 |
| Standardised rate per 1,000 population(a) | . . | 4.5 | 5.0 |
| 95 % confidence intervals on standardised rates | . . | 3.5 - 5.5 | 4.0 - 6.0 |
| Comments | It is expected that most people or proxies answering would be able to indicate when the diabetes was type 1, so it was not thought to produce a significant level of reporting error. |
| (a) Age standardised to 2001 NHS benchmark population. |
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