Abstract
Aims/hypothesis
The aim of this study was to determine and quantify socioeconomic position (SEP) inequalities in diabetes mellitus in different areas of Europe, at the turn of the century, for men and women.
Methods
We analysed data from ten representative national health surveys and 13 mortality registers. For national health surveys the dependent variable was the presence of diabetes by self-report and for mortality registers it was death from diabetes. Educational level (SEP), age and sex were independent variables, and age-adjusted prevalence ratios (PRs) and risk ratios (RRs) were calculated.
Results
In the overall study population, low SEP was related to a higher prevalence of diabetes, for example men who attained a level of education equivalent to lower secondary school or less had a PR of 1.6 (95% CI 1.4–1.9) compared with those who attained tertiary level education, whereas the corresponding value in women was 2.2 (95% CI 1.9–2.7). Moreover, in all countries, having a disadvantaged SEP is related to a higher rate of mortality from diabetes and a linear relationship is observed. Eastern European countries have higher relative inequalities in mortality by SEP. According to our data, the RR of dying from diabetes for women with low a SEP is 3.4 (95% CI 2.6–4.6), while in men it is 2.0 (95% CI 1.7–2.4).
Conclusions/interpretation
In Europe, educational attainment and diabetes are inversely related, in terms of both morbidity and mortality rates. This underlines the importance of targeting interventions towards low SEP groups. Access and use of healthcare services by people with diabetes also need to be improved.
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Introduction
Socioeconomic position (SEP) refers to the social and economic factors that influence what positions individuals or groups hold within the structure of a society, such as educational level, income or wealth. Socioeconomic inequalities in health are the differences in opportunities for maintaining good health between people with different SEPs. [1]. Several studies in Europe have analysed the relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and chronic diseases [2, 3] or mortality [4–6] and found an association between health and socioeconomic position—among populations of disadvantaged SEPs the majority of health indicators are worse.
The main factors that relate SEP to health and diabetes are general socioeconomic and political context, working and living conditions, health behaviours and psychosocial factors [7]. Brown et al. described how SEP influences health among persons with diabetes through community factors (e.g. availability of healthy foods, availability of places to exercise), health behaviours (e.g. diet, physical activity), access to healthcare and processes of diabetes care (e.g. measurement of HbA1c, smoking cessation) [8].
Some studies have reported that the risk of having diabetes mellitus is associated with a disadvantaged SEP in developed countries as well as in developing countries [9, 10]. This association was shown in both diabetes morbidity studies [3, 8, 10–12] and in diabetes mortality studies [13–15]. Recent studies have reported that this association is explained in part by health behaviours and obesity [8, 16–18]. In this respect, cigarette smoking is associated with a low glomerular filtration rate [16] and dietary patterns may influence the risk of type 2 diabetes [17], and these health behaviours, as well as obesity, are related with SEP [19, 20]. Other factors related to inequalities in diabetes mortality are socioeconomic differences in terms of access to and use and quality of healthcare services for patients with diabetes, including diabetes education and diabetes control [2, 8, 21].
The majority of studies analysing the relationship between diabetes and SEP have only involved one country [9–15], and those that have compared the inequalities in SEP among different countries included several chronic diseases rather than focusing on diabetes alone [3]. The comparison of several European countries can be helpful because country characteristics may be related to the degree of diabetes inequalities. If inequalities in diabetes mortality or prevalence were lesser in some countries compared with elsewhere, closer investigation may suggest ways of reducing these inequalities through health promotion or healthcare policies. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine and quantify SEP inequalities in diabetes mellitus in different settings in Europe, at the turn of the century, for men and women, and to compare countries with respect to the magnitude of these inequalities. The main hypotheses of the study were that there are diabetes inequalities in all European countries with respect to mortality as well as morbidity, and that these inequalities are larger among women.
Methods
Design, population studied and sources of information
This is a study of cross-sectional health surveys and longitudinal mortality registers from different areas of Europe. The study population consists of men and women who were resident in the selected countries, aged 30–64 years for the morbidity study (national health surveys) and 30–74 years for the mortality study (mortality registers). We analysed ten representative European national health surveys, all of which were conducted around the year 2000 (seven Western European countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Spain; three Eastern European countries: Czech Republic, Lithuania and Estonia) and 13 European mortality registers from around the same time (eight Western European sites: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Turin and Barcelona; five Eastern European sites: Slovenia, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Estonia). The characteristics of health surveys and registers are shown in Table 1.
Variables
In each country, persons with diabetes were identified by self-report based on responses to questions about diabetes. The survey items about diabetes aimed to determine whether the respondent currently had diabetes. In the original surveys this disease was called ‘diabetes’ (most countries), ‘diabetes mellitus’ (Belgium) or ‘high blood sugar (diabetes)’ (Estonia). In Sweden the responses were scored by a general practitioner according to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) classification system (http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/). Each survey had either two (‘yes’, ‘no’) or three (‘yes’, ‘have had’, ‘have never had’) response categories. The percentage of missing values for this variable were below 1% for all countries except Lithuania (15.8%), Estonia (4.4%), Germany (3.9%) and Belgium (1.1%).
In terms of diabetes mortality, the underlying cause of death was coded using either the ICD-9 or ICD-10, depending on the country and the year; the relevant codes were ICD-9:250 and ICD-10:E10–E14.
Educational level (as an indicator of SEP) [1], age and sex were independent variables. Educational level was determined based on national education schemes reclassified into three categories according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), which was designed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The educational levels were lower secondary or less (ISCED 1–2), upper secondary (ISCED 3–4) and tertiary (ISCED 5–6). Missing values for educational level were <4% in the morbidity and mortality datasets.
For the mortality data, the age recorded corresponded to the start of the follow-up in longitudinal studies and age at death in those with a cross-sectional design. Age was stratified according to 5 year intervals (see Table 1).
Data analysis
For national health surveys a standardised weighting was used as necessary to take into account the sample design. Mortality data were stratified according to 5 year age group, sex and level of education.
All the analyses were performed separately for men and women [22] and for each country. First, all the variables for health surveys and for mortality registers were described. Age-standardised prevalence and mortality rates were then calculated by the direct method using the entire health surveys for ten countries and the whole census population at risk for the 13 sites included in the mortality study as standard populations.
For diabetes morbidity, log-binomial regression models were fitted to assess the associations between diabetes morbidity and SEP and age in each country. The associations with SEP are presented as age-adjusted prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% CIs.
For diabetes mortality, Poisson regression models were fitted to determine associations between mortality rates and educational level and age in each country. The person-years at risk were introduced as an offset. The associations with educational level are presented as age-adjusted RR and 95% CIs.
Finally, we created a pooled data set with the data of all populations, including population-specific weights assigned to the individual observations, so that the separate populations carried equal weight in the results for all populations combined. With this data set, we fitted a log-Binomial regression and a Poisson regression model to assess the association between diabetes (morbidity and mortality) and educational level for all countries combined.
Results
Table 1 presents a description of the morbidity datasets (national health surveys) and a description of the mortality register in each setting for both men and women. It can be seen that for both men and women, the distribution of SEP varies according to country. Spain is the country with the highest percentage of individuals with an educational level of lower secondary or less (63.1% of men, 71.3% of women) and Sweden is the country with the highest proportion of individuals with a high (tertiary) level of education (30.7% of men, 34.8% of women).
For the countries together as a whole, inequalities in SEP were related to diabetes morbidity and mortality (Fig. 1). According to these data, the PR for a woman with a low SEP having diabetes is 2.2 (95% CI 1.9–2.7), while for a man it is 1.6 (95% CI 1.4–1.9). The RR of dying from diabetes for women with a low SEP from all the countries is 3.4 (95% CI 2.6–4.5), while for men it is 2.0 (95% CI 1.7–2.4). Thus, SEP differences in diabetes are larger among women, both in terms of morbidity and mortality.
Morbidity from diabetes
Morbidity from diabetes is described in Table 2. In all countries, having a disadvantaged SEP is related to a higher prevalence of diabetes. Moreover, there is an inverse relationship between educational level and prevalence of diabetes. In the majority of countries studied, the prevalence of diabetes among people with an advantaged SEP was around 2–3% (range 1.5–5.4% in men, 0.6–4.1% in women), and was higher, around 5% (range 2.5–8.5% in men, 2.7–8.8% in women) among people with a disadvantaged SEP. In both women and men these differences are more pronounced in Western countries, particularly Belgium and Italy. In men, the relationship between diabetes morbidity and SEP is only statistically significant in three countries (Norway, Belgium and Italy), whereas in women it is statistically significant in the majority of countries.
Mortality from diabetes
Rates of mortality from diabetes are shown in Table 3. In all countries, having a disadvantaged SEP is related to a higher rate of mortality from diabetes. Furthermore, as for morbidity, there is an inverse relationship between SEP and mortality. For the majority of countries, the RR of dying from diabetes is significantly higher for both men and women who occupy a low SEP than for those who occupy a high SEP. There are relatively large inequalities in Eastern European countries, particularly among women, with large differences between those with tertiary education and the rest of the population, and smaller differences between the mid and lower levels (i.e. the majority of the population). The RR of dying from diabetes in the Czech Republic is 7.82 (95% CI 3.3–18.7) for women and 5.2 (95% CI 1.9–14.0) for men, while the corresponding RRs in Sweden are 3.0 (95% CI 1.9–4.8) and 2.2 (95% CI 1.8–2.6), respectively. It should be noted that absolute differences between educational level rates are not very different between Western and Eastern European countries.
Discussion
The four main findings of this study are: (1) SEP inequalities are related to morbidity and mortality in diabetes mellitus in all countries, in a linear fashion, although differences in morbidity among men are relatively small; (2) SEP inequalities in diabetes prevalence are smaller than corresponding differences in diabetes mortality; (3) SEP inequalities in both morbidity and mortality are relatively higher among women than among men, particularly with respect to morbidity; and (4) relative inequalities in morbidity are more pronounced for Western European countries, whereas relative inequalities in mortality are greater in Eastern European countries. These patterns are not as clear when absolute differences between mortality and educational level rates are taken into account.
Limitations
The data presented are subject to several limitations. First, as mentioned above, some Eastern European and Baltic countries, except Slovenia, are characterised by the use of a cross-sectional unlinked study design. Data for Slovenia were supplied from a census-linked mortality follow-up and this country had smaller inequalities in mortality than the other Eastern European countries. While this may be taken to suggest bias caused by differences in study design, it is also possible that Slovenia has different characteristics to other Eastern European countries. Also, for some countries in Western Europe that supplied data from both unlinked cross-sectional mortality studies and census-linked longitudinal mortality studies (e.g. England, France), it has been reported that differences between data obtained using the two study designs are not large and are not systematically in one direction [23]. Moreover, Shkolnikov et al. found that mortality inequalities based on unlinked mortality data in Lithuania were overestimated, mainly in the older age groups (70 years and above), limited overestimation in the group aged 30–69 years [24]. Thus, the possibility of overestimation mortality inequalities by education in Eastern and Baltic countries is probably reduced by the choice of age group studied here (30–74 years).
Other limitations of this study are the under-recording of diabetes. Regarding the declaration of diabetes in health interview surveys, some studies have concluded that educational differences in misreporting of diabetes are small or absent [25]. Moreover, health surveys of diabetes only report diagnosed diabetes, which only represents between 30% and 50% of total diabetes [26, 27]. One study recently reported that socioeconomic status, as measured by education, is not associated with having undiagnosed diabetes [28]. Mackenbach et al concluded that the misreporting of diabetes varies according to the respondents’ level of education as they found that health interview survey data underestimate socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of diabetes [29]. In this sense, this article provides a conservative estimate of diabetes inequalities. Another limitation of this study could be the under-reporting of diabetes mellitus in death certificates, but to our knowledge, there is no evidence that this under-reporting varies by SEP.
The measure of SEP used (educational level) presents several limitations: (1) its inability to refer to social groups arising from interdependent economic relationships; (2) it is less predictive than class position of ownership of capital assets; and (3) it does not have a universal meaning because its implications are related to age, sex, race, birth cohort and class position. However, educational level does have the advantage that it can be measured for everybody, it is easy to measure and has been related to many health outcomes [1].
Inequalities in diabetes morbidity and mortality in Europe
Mackenbach et al., who studied inequalities in health in Europe [30], as part of the Tackling Health Inequalities in Europe (EUROTHINE) project, found that relative inequalities in mortality (all causes) were small in some southern European countries and very large in most countries in the Eastern and Baltic regions. This result is similar that of our study, which focused on diabetes inequalities. Wild et al. estimate that the worldwide prevalence of diabetes was 2.8% in the year 2000 and will be about 4.4% in the year 2030 [31]. These data are in accordance with our results. We found higher prevalences in Western countries, in accordance with Goday’s review, which found a greater presence of diabetes mellitus in societies that do not have traditional lifestyles or have become industrialised over a relatively short period of time [32]. Moreover, in industrialised countries, there is a linear relationship between SEP and the prevalence of diabetes [3]. In our study we observed that socioeconomic health was inversely related to the prevalence of diabetes, both for each country analysed individually and for the overall data. In accordance with other studies we have found that diabetes morbidity is associated with having a disadvantaged SEP [2, 3, 8–12]. Previous studies that have analysed inequalities in diabetes mortality also have shown that people with a lower SEP have a higher risk of dying from diabetes [13–15].
In this study we have shown how diabetes morbidity and mortality vary across countries. The different patterns observed probably depend on the particular characteristics of the country, such as availability of healthy foods, access to places to exercise, neighbourhood safety, transportation, environmental exposures and access to healthcare services [8], and possibly on the degree of general socioeconomic development (welfare state, social expenditure, labour force, power resources and wealth) [33, 34]. For example, if patients with diabetes who occupy a low SEP in Eastern countries have more restricted access to healthcare services than patients with the same SEP who reside in Western countries, this could explain the higher relative inequalities in mortality in Eastern Europe.
We have observed that SEP inequalities in diabetes were higher among women than among men. Some studies have confirmed that socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of common chronic diseases, including diabetes, are greater in women than in men [3, 35, 36]. This study supports these findings. Recent studies from different countries have reported similar results for diabetes mortality [35, 37]. This different pattern among women can be explained by the existence of inequalities in health behaviours, because people with a disadvantaged SEP have a higher prevalences of obesity, lower physical activity and high psychosocial risks, these inequalities being higher among women than among men [36, 38, 39]. Cavelaars et al. [40] reported that SEP inequalities in obesity in some European countries were higher among women.
Another important finding of this study is that inequalities in diabetes mortality are higher than inequalities in diabetes morbidity in the majority of countries. In this sense, it should be noted that when diabetes is diagnosed there are several factors related to disease progression that can widen the inequalities in diabetes mortality related to SEP. These factors are less access to and use of healthcare services and poorer quality of the care process, as well as lower levels of diabetes education and control of variables related to diabetes (e.g. glycaemia, weight, cholesterol) for patients that occupy a disadvantaged SEP [2, 8, 21].
Conclusions and recommendations
In this study we have confirmed that there are important socioeconomic inequalities in diabetes morbidity and mortality in all European countries studied. It would be interesting to undertake another study including country contextual variables to determine how country characteristics affect diabetes morbidity and mortality and socioeconomic inequalities.
Knowledge of how inequalities in diabetes mellitus differ between countries can be useful for the development of policies to reduce the incidence of the disease and to control mortality across the entire population. In this sense, health promotion and access for everybody (particularly disadvantaged people) to healthy behaviours, such as healthy foods and places to exercise, are all important. Improving access to healthcare services for the whole population and people with diabetes in particular, would also improve the control of patients with diabetes. Moreover, it may be helpful to evaluate the effect of different public policies designed to diminish social class inequalities in diabetes.
Abbreviations
- PR:
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prevalence ratio
- RR:
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risk ratio
- SEP:
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socioeconomic position
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This investigation was funded by the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General of the European Union and was carried out as a part of the Eurothine project (grant number 2003125). The help of D. Macfarlane of the Institut Municipal d’Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), L. Espelt of the Universitat de Lleida (UdL) (English revision) and L. Font of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) (who provided comments on a previous version) during the writing of this article is much appreciated. We are also grateful for the comments made by A. Goday of the Institut Municipal d’Assistència Sanitària (IMAS). This article forms part of the doctoral dissertation of A. Espelt at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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Espelt, A., Borrell, C., Roskam, A.J. et al. Socioeconomic inequalities in diabetes mellitus across Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. Diabetologia 51, 1971–1979 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-008-1146-1
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