Real-life insights
into the treatment
and outcomes of people
with diabetes
DIAbetes MANagement and Treatment (DIAMANT)
The increasing number of people with diabetes and the unclear long-term safety and effectiveness of newer and old blood-glucose-lowering treatments emphasize the need for more pharmaco-epidemiological studies. The DIAbetes, MANagement and Treatment (DIAMANT) cohort aims to gain real-life insights into the treatment and outcomes among people with diabetes in daily general practice in the Netherlands in order to prevent diabetes and its complications.
The DIAMANT Cohort
The DIAMANT cohort is population-based, dynamic, prospective general practitioner (GP) cohort of persons with diabetes. It contains information real world data (RWD) from the electronic GP information systems, which includes structured diagnostic coding systems. The records include information on diagnoses, symptoms, laboratory test results, referrals to specialists and prescriptions.
Linked data
The cohort is part of the national infrastructure of STIZON and is therefore linked to data from pharmacies, clinical laboratories, Dutch hospitals and to several national registers (e.g. Cancer Registry, Pathology Registry and Perinatal Registry). Linkages to other (not yet linked) data are planned.
This infrastructure enables us to study, manage and support personalised care in order to ultimately improve care and outcomes for people with diabetes.
More info?
Interested to learn more about the DIAbetes MANagement and Treatment (DIAMANT), the DIAMANT Cohort and the national infrastructure of STIZON? Do not hesitate to contact us.
Publications
See our most recent publications in the section below.
- Overbeek JA, Swart KMA, van der Pal EYM, et al. The DIAbetes MANagement and Treatment (DIAMANT) Cohort. Clin Epidemiol 2022; 14: 1453-62.
- Dal Canto E, Remmelzwaal S, van Ballegooijen AJ, Handoko ML, Heymans S, van Empel V, Paulus WJ, Nijpels G, Elders P, Beulens JW. Diagnostic value of echocardiographic markers for diastolic dysfunction and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Heart Fail Rev. 2022; 27(1):207-218.
- Van Dongen LH, Harms PP, Hoogendoorn M, Zimmerman DS, Lodder EM, 't Hart LM, Herings R, van Weert HCPM, Nijpels G, Swart KMA, van der Heijden AA, Blom MT, Elders PJ, Tan HL. Discovery of predictors of sudden cardiac arrest in diabetes: rationale and outline of the RESCUED (REcognition of Sudden Cardiac arrest vUlnErability in Diabetes) project. Open Heart. 2021;8(1):e001554.
- Harms PP, van der Heijden AA, Rutters F, Tan HL, Beulens JWJ, Nijpels G, Elders P; ESCAPE-NET. Prevalence of ECG abnormalities in people with type 2 diabetes: The Hoorn Diabetes Care System cohort. J Diabetes Complications. 2021;35(2):107810
- Schreur V, Ng H, Nijpels G, Stefánsson E, Tack CJ, Klevering BJ, de Jong EK, Hoyng CB, Keunen JEE, van der Heijden AA. Validation of a model for the prediction of retinopathy in persons with type 1 diabetes. Br J Ophthalmol. 2021;105(9):1286-1288.