Socio-economic status, body mass index and incident type 2 diabetes

In Scotland and other parts of the United Kingdom type 2 diabetes is more common in people who live in more deprived areas.  We do not know whether this can be explained by different patterns of overweight and obesity in more and less deprived areas.  This project will use records from GPs (from which names, addresses and other identifiable information such as full date of birth have been removed) to describe how many people in Lothian were given their first diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in 2022 and 2023 and compare the proportions between people in the most and least deprived fifth of the population.  We will also compare weight patterns in people who received a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in 2022 and 2023 with those of people of a similar age and the same sex and find out if differences in weight patterns appear to explain any differences linked to deprivation.