What happens to defaulters from a XXXX clinic?

@entity1 @entity4051 @entity28 @entity6 @entity16 @entity989
The annual rate at which @entity1 defaulted from follow up at the Wolverhampton @entity6 clinic between 1971 and 1981 was 4.1% overall and 3.5% in white @entity1 . In 1982 a study was started to discover what happened to white @entity1 , born after 1919, who defaulted from the hospital clinic. There were 162 defaulters, of whom 19 had died. Of the remaining 143 @entity1 , 19 were attending another hospital @entity6 clinic, 22 had moved out of the area, and 28 refused to participate in the study. Seventy four agreed to participate: 39 were treated with diet, 15 with oral hypoglycaemic agents, and 20 with insulin. They were matched for sex, age, treatment, and duration of @entity6 with @entity1 attending the clinic. Non-insulin dependent defaulters were significantly more overweight at diagnosis (40% v 25%; p less than 0.05) and remained more @entity28 . They developed significantly higher diastolic blood pressure (94 v 86 mm Hg; p less than 0.02) and higher @entity4051 ( @entity4051 ) concentrations (11.7% v 8.4%; p less than 0.01). They had significantly more @entity16 at reassessment (15 v 6 out of 54; p less than 0.05) and a greater incidence of new @entity989 (p less than 0.02), which correlated with their higher diastolic blood pressures (p less than 0.01) and @entity4051 concentration (p less than 0.02). In defaulters who were treated with insulin only the prevalence of @entity16 was significantly different from that in controls (p less than 0.05). Defaulters received minimal medical supervision and suffered greater morbidity than regular attenders at the clinic.
