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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SamJB" data-source="post: 1911168" data-attributes="member: 45322">I worked on the steering committee of the NDA for 3 years and might be able to answer your questionsThe NDA compares risk factors by looking at the number of complication events for patients (adjusted for Age, Sex and social deprivation score) without diabetes and then compares that against the number of events experienced by diabetic patients. E.g. Say in the UK that 5% of the population had Angina and that there are 100,000 Type 2s. You would expect 5,000 T2s to have Angina too. If, in fact, there were 10,000 Angina events in then you can say the risk of Angina is 2 compared to non-diabetics.The NDA doesn't make causal assertions, it just, well, audits and provides information on the data.In the Care Processes & Treatment Target report (not the one discussed here, this is the Complications & Mortality report) "poor diabetes care"  is defined as not receiving regular tests of:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">HbA1c</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">BP</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Lipids</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Foot checks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">BMI checks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Retinopathy screening</li> </ol>There are others, including attendences of structured education.</blockquote>

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