Introduction:

Diabetes mellitus is a disease with high morbidity and mortality.

Objective:

To characterize clinically and epidemiologically type 2 diabetes mellitus and the use of microalbuminuria in early kidney damage.

Materials and methods:

A cross-sectional study was carried out using a non-probabilistic sample of 94 patients from a universe of 187 patients with type2 diabetes mellitus treated in the Internal Medicine Service of the Teaching Clinical-Surgery Hospital “Amalia Simoni”, of Camagüey. It was conducted between January 2020 and January 2021. Variables such as age, sex, toxic habits, nutritional status, time of evolution of diabetes, comorbidities; value of albuminuria and its relationship with the time of evolution of the disease were analyzed. The SPSS 19.0 statistical program was used for data processing.

Results:

The age group of 60 years old and over, female sex, smoking as a toxic habit, and overweight prevailed. According to the time of evolution of the disease, the range of 6 to 10 years prevailed. The main comorbidities were arterial hypertension and ischemic heart disease. The relationship between the time of evolution of the disease and the appearance of pathological microalbuminuria demonstrated its usefulness in the detection of early kidney damage in patients with 6 to 10 years of evolution.

Conclusions:

The role of microalbuminuria in the detection of early kidney damage in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was demonstrated.

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