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. 2022 Aug 1:10:921243.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.921243. eCollection 2022.

Vaccination coverage of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Challenging issues from an outpatient secondary care setting in Greece

Georgios Galanos  1   2 , Helen Dimitriou  1   3 , Angelos Pappas  4 , Chrysoula Perdikogianni  1   5 , Emmanouil K Symvoulakis  6 , Emmanouil Galanakis  1   5 , Christos Lionis  1   6
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Vaccination coverage of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Challenging issues from an outpatient secondary care setting in Greece

Georgios Galanos et al. Front Public Health. .

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Abstract

Background: Increased morbidity/mortality due to vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) is encountered in type 2 diabetes (T2D) people. Aim of this study was to assess their vaccination coverage and describe trends possibly affecting compliance.

Methods: Information on vaccination coverage was retrieved from either documents or interview provided by patients, and/or their vaccination record card at a specialized outpatient diabetes center. The selection of the patients was arbitrary.

Results: An increasing vaccination rate for influenza was observed from 2018 to 2020 among 372 participants. The vaccination coverage for S.pneumoniae was 67.2% (PCV13), 20.4% (PPSV23), 26.3% for herpes zoster in individuals ≥60 years, 1.9% for tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis and 1.1% for hepatitis B. A 10.2% of participants were found to be unvaccinated. Vaccination uptake for influenza and PCV13 was related to age, ≥3 comorbidities and long-term follow-up. T2D individuals consecutively vaccinated for influenza were 3.78 times more likely to be also vaccinated with PCV13.

Conclusions: Vaccination rates of patients with T2D show an increasing trend, especially for influenza and S. pneumoniae, although the one for S. pneumoniae was low. Older people seem more prone to vaccination, the one for herpes zoster was low with infected patients remaining unvaccinated while significantly low coverage was observed for other VPDs. The findings are important to improve effectiveness of preventative services.

Keywords: infections; prevention; primary care; type 2 diabetes; vaccination.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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An initial number of 538 appointments had been arranged during the study period. The reasons and numbers of patients of the missing appointments are shown within the dot-line square while the ones for declining participation are shown within the solid-line squares.
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