A study of the prevalence of complications of diabetes at tertiary health care centre

 

Maddela Gopinath¹, Sanjay M Mundkar^2*

 

Abstract              Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most important non-communicable disease of public health concern today Aims and Objectives: To Study the prevalence of complications of diabetes at tertiary health care centre. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in the diabetic patients at tertiary health care centre during the period from October 2018 to March 2019. During this period any diabetic patients showing the complications directly or indirectly related to Diabetes were included into study by written and explained consent, so there were 76 diabetic patients who showed the complications were included. The data was entered to excel sheets and analyzed by windows excel software. Result: In our study we have seen that The majority of the patients were in the age group of >60 were 32.89%, followed by 50-60 were 30.26%, 40-50 were 19.74%, 30-40 were 11.84%, 20-30 were 5.26%. The majority of the patients were Male i.e. 55.26% and Female were 44.74%. The most common complications were Hypertension in 59.21%, followed by Neuropathy in 42.11% Foot ulceration in 32.89%, Nephropathy in 27.63%, erectile dysfunction in 17.11%, Depression in 13.16, CAN (Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy) in 9.21%. Conclusion: It can be concluded from our study the most common complications were Hypertension Neuropathy, Foot ulceration, Nephropathy, erectile dysfunction, Depression, CAN etc.

Key words: Diabetes, Complications of Diabetes, CAN (Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy).