Patient Cohort Characteristics
We identified 93 young adults with type 1 diabetes living in NL who turned 19 years of age between November 2008 and March 2013 and were therefore eligible for transition. Forty-seven (50.5%) were male and the mean duration for having diabetes at their 19th birthday was 9.9 ± 3.8 years. In terms of geographic distribution, fifty-nine (63.4%) lived outside on an urban area as defined by Statistics Canada.18 Eighty-five (91.4%) were treated in the Eastern Health region. To comply with provincial privacy legislations, cell sizes <6 could not be reported, so we could not analysis differences by health regions further. The rate of diabetes-related hospitalizations increased from 15.6/100 person-years in the three years before their 18th birthday to 16.7/100 person-years in the three years after their 18th birthday. Over 7 (7.6%) people in the cohort had a hospitalization for diabetes ketoacidosis in the three years before age 18. Thirteen (13.98%) had a hospitalization for diabetes ketoacidosis in the two years after age 18.