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MEDISAN
On-line version ISSN 1029-3019
Abstract
REYES SANAME, Félix Andrés et al. Clinical epidemiological aspects of patients admitted due to type 2 diabetes mellitus in the hospital of Moa. MEDISAN [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.6, pp. 1143-1156. Epub Nov 30, 2020. ISSN 1029-3019.
Introduction:
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that is considered as an important health problem worldwide due to its high socioeconomic prevalence and repercussion.
Objective:
To characterize patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus according to clinical and epidemiological variables.
Methods:
A retrospective study of 96 patients with this disease was carried out, selected by simple random sampling who were admitted in the Internal Medicine Service of the Guillermo Luis Fernández Hernández-Baquero Teaching General Hospital in Moa, Holguín, from July to November, 2018.
Results:
In the series there was a prevalence of women (58.3 %), mainly in the ages of 50 to 59 (34.3 %), and the family history of diabetes mellitus as risk factor (63.5 %), as long as polyneuropathy was the most serious complication in the patients (47.9 %). It was also evidenced, that the greater clinical course time of the disease and the risk factors conditioned the emergence of complications, what prolonged the hospital stay.
Conclusions:
The results coincided with those of several national studies, what demonstrates that type 2 diabetes mellitus have a devastating impact in the human being health and, therefore, an important socioeconomic repercussion.
Keywords : type 2 diabetes mellitus; risk factors; complications of the diabetes; hospital stay.