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...This study was conducted with the support of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) through funding provided by the Government of Ontario, and through provision of data by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and CCO....
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...Diabetes status was determined by linking subjects to the validated Ontario Diabetes Database, an administrative database registry of diabetes patients....
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...Specific comorbidities were determined at baseline and derived from Discharge Abstraction Database and Ontario Health Insurance Program databases....
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...The Ontario health care databases do not contain clinical data; thus, we were not able to adjust for BMI in our analyses....
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...The primary outcome was all-cause mortality, based on death certificate records from the Registered Persons Database, which contains demographic and residential data on all Ontario residents but does not include information on cause of death....
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