A Retrospective Real-World Cohort Study

SCALA-TK-CM: Semaglutide and CArdiometabolic Real-Life Atlas - TürKiye CardioMetabolic Epidemiology Study: A Retrospective Real-World Cohort Study

The primary objectives are to determine the prevalence and overlap of major cardiometabolic diseases, identify multimorbidity clusters, and characterize demographic, clinical, laboratory, and treatment patterns across the cohort and relevant subgroups. This study is based on anonymized electronic health record (EHR) data and spanning January 2022 to December 2025. EHR will be extracted from participants of Acibadem hospital network in Turkey. Participants received routine clinical care according to physician discretion. Index date will be defined by the first diagnosis of cardiometabolic conditions.

Follow-up period will include at least one year of to allow description of long-term outcomes. It will extend until the end of study, last recorded encounter, or death.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants aged above or equal to 12 years at index date.
• Participants with international classification of diseases (ICD-10) coded diagnosis or secondary criteria for either diabetes (type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes), overweight, obesity, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease), cardiovascular disease (arterial hypertension, ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, heart failure, cerebrovascular disease (including stroke and transient ischemic attack), atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation), chronic kidney disease, dyslipidemia.
• At least one healthcare encounter within 12 months prior to index date (pre-index) to ensure availability of baseline data.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None.