Epidemiology of urinary tract infections in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: An analysis based on a large sample of 456,586 German T2DM patients.

Introduction: This analysis was conducted to investigate urinary tract infection (UTI) incidence among Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in Germany in a real-world setting and to identify risk factors associated with UTI incidence/recurrence.

Methods: Our cohort study was conducted based on an anonymized dataset from a regional German sickness fund (2010-2012). A UTI event was mainly identified through observed outpatient/inpatient UTI diagnoses.