Group Number or percentage who have diabetesAge ≥20 years 25.6 million or 11.3% of all people in this age group Age ≥65 years 10.9 million or 26.9% of all people in this age group Fact Sheet uses both fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c (A1c) levels to derive estimates for undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes. These tests were chosen because they are most frequently used in clinical practice.Detailed information about the data sources, methods, and references are available at http://www.cdc.gov/ diabetes/pubs/references11.htm. Estimation methods

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Objective To investigate the role of advancing age on postoperative complications and revision surgery after fusion for scoliosis. Methods A retrospective, cohort study was performed using the Thomson Reuters MarketScan database, examining patients with adult scoliosis who underwent spinal fusion from 2000 to 2009. Primary outcomes included infection, hemorrhage and pulmonary embolism (PE) within 90 days of surgery, and refusion. The effect of increasing age was estimated using the odds ratio (OR) of complications in a multivariate logistic regression analysis, and a Cox proportional hazard model estimated the hazard ratio of refusion. Results A total of 8432 patients were included in this study. Overall, the average age was 53.3 years, with 26.90% males and 39% with a Charlson Comorbidity Score of ≥1. Most patients had commercial insurance (66.81%), with 26.03% and 7.16% covered by Medicare and Medicaid, respectively. Increasing age (per 5-year increment) was a significant predictor of hemorrhagic complication (OR, 1.06; confidence interval [CI], 1.01–1.11; P = 0.0196), PE (OR, 1.09; CI, 1.03–1.16; P = 0.0031), infection (OR, 1.04; CI, 1.01–1.07; P = 0.0053), and refusion (hazard ratio, 1.07; CI, 1.02–1.13; P = 0.0103). Conclusions In this study, age was associated with increased risk of hemorrhage, PE, infection, and refusion. With the aging population, the role of patient age on postoperative healing and outcomes deserves deeper investigation after repair of adult idiopathic scoliosis.

Study Design. Retrospective longitudinal cohort. Objective. We investigated opioid prescribing patterns amongst adults in the United States diagnosed with low back or lower extremity pain (LBP/LEP) who underwent spine surgery. Summary of Background Data. Opioid-based treatment of LBP/LEP and postsurgical pain has separately been associated with chronic opioid use, but a combined and large-scale cohort study is missing. Methods. This study utilizes commercial inpatient, outpatient, and pharmaceutical insurance claims. Between 2008 and 2015, patients without previous prescription opioids with a new diagnosis of LBP/LEP who underwent surgery within 1 year after diagnosis were enrolled. Opioid prescribing patterns after LBP/LEP diagnosis and after surgery were evaluated. All patients had 1-year postoperative follow-up. Low and high frequency (6 or more refills in 12 months) opioid prescription groups were identified. Results. A total of 25,506 patients without previous prescription opioids were diagnosed with LBP/LEP and underwent surgery within 1 year of diagnosis. After LBP/LEP diagnosis, 18,219 (71.4%) were prescribed opioids, whereas 7287 (28.6%) were not. After surgery, 2952 (11.6%) were prescribed opioids with high frequency and 22,554 (88.4%) with low frequency. Among patients prescribed opioids before surgery, those with high-frequency prescriptions were more likely to continue this pattern postoperatively than those with low frequency prescriptions preoperatively (OR 2.15, 95% CI 1.97–2.34). For those prescribed opioids preoperatively, average daily morphine milligram equivalent (MME) decreased after surgery (by 2.62 in decompression alone cohort and 0.25 in arthrodesis cohort, P < 0.001). Postoperative low-frequency patients were more likely than high-frequency patients to discontinue opioids one-year after surgery (OR 3.78, 95% CI 3.59–3.99). Postoperative high-frequency patients incurred higher cost than low-frequency patients. Postoperative high-frequency prescribing varied widely across states (4.3%–20%). Conclusion. A stepwise association exists between opioid use after LEP or LBP diagnosis and frequency and duration of opioid prescriptions after surgery. Simultaneously, the strength of prescriptions as measured by MME decreased following surgery. Level of Evidence: 3