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Gaceta Médica Espirituana

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Abstract

COLLERA RIVES, Sheila Yissel et al. Cognitive alterations and instrumental activities of the daily life in patient with diabetes mellitus type 2. Gac Méd Espirit [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1, pp.44-54. ISSN 1608-8921.

Background: Recent discoveries show effects of the diabetes mellitus in the cognitive functions. Objective: To identify the cognitive alterations that distinguish the patients with diabetes type 2 which are  attended in the  Integral Attention Center to Diabetics from Sancti Spíritus and their relationship with the acting of the instrumental activities of the daily life. Methodology: It was carried out a descriptive-correlational study that included 30 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 and 30 healthy controls. A battery of cognitive test and the index for the instrumental activities of the daily life of Lawton Brody was used for the neuropsychological evaluation. Results: The most significant alterations (p <0.05) of the patients were in the speed of prosecution of the information, attention, short memory and I release term, the abstract reasoning and the executive functions; in this last domain a size of big effect was evidenced (d>0.80). An smaller autonomy was shown in the acting of the instrumental activities of the daily life in the diabetic patients. Conclusions: The investigation showed alterations in the cognitive functions in patients with diabetes type 2; however a correlation was not identified with the acting of the instrumental activities of their daily life.

Keywords : Cognition disorders; instrumental activities of the daily life; diabetes mellitus type 2.

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