Abstract

GIRON BOMBULL, José Antonio et al. Clinical and epidemiological characterization of prediabetes. MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.8, pp.2096-3000. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 50 prediabetic patients, belonging to "Ernesto Guevara de la Serna" Polyclinic, Boniato town in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January to December, 2012, with the aim of characterizing some clinical and epidemiological aspects of prediabetes. The percentage was used as summary measure. The female sex and the age groups 40-49, 50-59 years prevailed in the series. Among the most frequent risk factors there were: obesity and overweight, hypertension and first degree family pathological history of consanguinity for diabetes mellitus. Intolerance to glucose was the diagnostic category with the higher contribution of cases for this disorder, where as, the comorbidity found in order of frequency corresponded to hypertension (50.0%) and to ischemic cardiopathy (26.0%).

Keywords : prediabetes; diabetes mellitus; impaired fasting glucose; glucose intolerance; primary health care.

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