A study using prescription data from seven European regions found insulin prescription rates in the year before pregnancy ranged from 0.27% in Tuscany to 0.45% in Norway.
Notes on verification
Exact figures verified against original PLOS ONE study (Charlton et al. 2016) and reproduced consistently across PubMed, PMC, and institutional repository sources, plus an independent Italian public health source. [tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=single on EUROmediCAT multi-database pharmacoepidemiological study using a common protocol across seven European prescription databases (upstreams: Charlton RA, Klungsøyr K, Neville AJ, et al. PLOS ONE 2016;11(5):e0155737 (EUROmediCAT project)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Farmacoepidemiologia documentazione in Europa (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0155737 (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27192491 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4871589/ (corroboration)