Details of the populations served and demographics of patients treated by the Heart of England and the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire kidney service between 1990 and 2010
| Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust kidney service (intervention population) | University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire kidney service (control population) | |||||
| Population served | c. 800 000 | c. 800 000 | ||||
| % of population with type 2 diabetes achieving maximum recommended BP in 2008–2009 National Diabetes Audit5 | East and north Birmingham | 43.3% | Coventry | 48.7% | ||
| Solihull | 43.0% | Warwickshire | 47.7% | |||
| South Staffordshire | 51.3% | |||||
| Patients with diabetes starting KRT 1990–2010 | ||||||
| Total number | 499 | 503 | ||||
| % Males | 62.5% | 62.0% | ||||
| Ethnicity | Caucasian | n=310 | 62.1% | Caucasian | n=364 | 72.4% |
| Indo-Asian | 147 | 29.5% | Indo-Asian | 127 | 25.2% | |
| African-American | 36 | 7.2% | African-American | 11 | 2.2% | |
| Other | 6 | 1.2% | Other | 1 | 0.2% | |
| Mean age at start of KRT (years) | 61.75 | 61.79 | ||||
BP, blood pressure; KRT, kidney replacement therapy.