Perfil del paciente diabético en una Unidad de Medicina Familiar de la Ciudad de México

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Hernández, Ma. De Los Ángeles Corona Samperio, Lidia Bautista
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Objective: To determine the diabetic profile assigned to the Family Practice Center. Design: Descriptive and cross sectional study. Material and methods: 4,518 files were revised with diagnostic of Diabetes Mellitus (DM); were excluded 74 files for incomplete diagnostic. The instrument of data collection consisted on a spreadsheet with the established indicators of the profile. It was applied descriptive statistics. Results: From 4,444 files: 59.9% female; 33% age-group from 61 to 70 years old; 87.4% married; 84.5% complete primary school; 56.6% dedicated to housework; 54.4% less than 10 years of evolution; hyperglycemia 54.9%; nephropathy 8%; neuropathy and retinopathy 3.8%; hypertension 54.4% and obesity 47.1%. Conclusions: The profile indicated predictive family factors like: sedentary, obesity and comorbidity. More frequently complication: nephropathy. The time of evolution of the DM with prevalence smaller than 10 years is an opportunity that allows to apply preventive strategies, with the vision of improving the quality of life and the medical care costs.
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Language	English
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