Type 2 diabetes is associated with hospital stays for a wide range of medical conditions but, in people diagnosed at a young age, mental health disorders are the biggest contributing factor
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Image Caption: Researchers find that Type 2 diabetes is associated with hospital stays for a wide range of medical conditions but, in people diagnosed at a young age, mental health disorders are the biggest contributing factor.
Image Credit: Hongjiang Wu (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Article Title: Age- and sex-specific hospital bed-day rates in people with and without type 2 diabetes: A territory-wide population-based cohort study of 1.5 million people in Hong Kong
Author Countries: China
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Competing Interests: see manuscript
