Counting drugs to understand the disease: The case of measuring the diabetes epidemic

Table 2 Characteristics of source population (totals for Table 1)

Total size of population, prevalence, incidence, and mortality with respect to use of anti-diabetic drugs, Fyn County, Denmark, 1994–2003, cf. Table 1. Size is the size of the population on January 1, 1993–2003, where subjects migrating into the capture area in the preceding year are ignored. P is the count of prevalent subjects at January 1 of the given year. I is the count of incident subjects during the calendar year. D ₁is the count of deaths during the year among subjects prevalent at the beginning of the year. D ₀are deaths among non-prevalents in the year.

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