A study of glycemic control and prevalence of neuropathy and foot ulcers at tertiary health care center

 

Rajaram L Munde¹, Chetan R Sarda^2*

 

¹Assocoate Professor, ²Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, MIMSR Medical College, Latur, Maharashtra, INDIA.

 

Abstract              Background: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is most common non communicable diseases across the world. Aims and Objectives: To study glycemic control and prevalence of neuropathy and foot ulcers at tertiary health care center Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in the known patients of diabetes diagnosed by Glucose tolerance test and attending the OPD or IPD of the department of Medicine of a tertiary health care centre during the one year period i.e. January 2018 to January 2019 the data was entered to excel sheet and analyzed windows excel software for windows 10. Result : In our study we have seen that The majority of the patients were in the age group of >70 were 30.23%, followed by 60-70 were 25.58%, 50-60 were 20.93%, 40-50 were 16.28%, 30-40 were 6.98%. The majority of the patients were Male i.e. 68% and Female were 32% The prevalence was maximum with HbA1C 9-10 were 8.84%, followed by 8-9 were 4.88%, 7-8 were 3.95%, 6-7 were 1.16%. The prevalence was maximum with HbA1C 9-10 were 2.56%, followed by 8-9 were 2.09%, In 7-8 were 0.70%, 6-7 were 0.23%. Conclusion: It can be concluded from our study as the Glycemic control deranged the prevalence of Peripheral neuropathy and Diabetic foot ulcer increased.

Key Word: HbA1C, neuropathy, Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU)