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A sham date was inserted after 36 months to separate the prevalence and incidence periods.
Prevalence period was 36 months before the date of cancer diagnosis (cancer patients) or sham date (non-cancer patients).
Incidence period was 3 months after the date of cancer diagnosis (cancer patients) or sham date (non-cancer patients).
The length of the prevalence period was then reduced in 6-month increments from 30 months to only 6 months before cancer diagnosis or the sham date.
However, the incidence of undiagnosed diabetes was 35.0/1,000 compared to only 13.5/1,000 after a matched sham date in the controls, suggesting that one consequence of increased evaluation and management around breast cancer diagnosis is the detection of previously undiagnosed diabetes.
Second, we selected cohorts that only included patients with 36 months of Medicare Part A and B coverage prior to cancer diagnosis (cancer cohort) or the sham date (non-cancer cohort).
The prevalence period consisted of 36 months prior to cancer diagnosis or the sham index date.
The incidence period consisted of three months following cancer diagnosis or the sham index date.
Patients in the non-cancer cohort were assigned a "sham" index date on the first day of the 37th month after the beginning of Medicare Part A and B coverage.
In other cases, a "sham" index date may be selected to indicate the beginning of the incidence period following a pre-defined period of observation [ 2, 6, 8, 11, 12], for instance 12 months of Medicare eligibility.
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