Associations between physician gender and treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2: Results from the DUTY register (Diabetes mellitus needs unrestricted evaluation of p…

Purpose of the study: When analyzing gender aspects in medicine, the possible role of the gender of the treating physician has not received the same attention as the gender of the patient. Methods: In order to examine possible associations between gender of physicians, gender of patients and treatment parameters we evaluated datasets of >53,000 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 from the DUTY register. Results: 33% of the physicians were female (F). The proportion of F patients was higher for F than for male (M) physicians (55.5% vs. 49.4%, P