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Saudi Journal of Medicine (SJM)
Volume-4 | Issue-06 | 465-473
Original Research Article
Targeted and Opportunistic Screening of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Cases in Tertiary Care Hospital
Kiran PK, Ragul B and A K Gupta
Published : June 30, 2019
DOI : 10.36348/sjm.2019.v04i06.009
Abstract
Macro-vascular and micro-vascular complications of diabetes significantly cause morbidity and mortality among diabetic subjects in India. The study was to assess the prevalence of micro vascular complications of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic subjects and to analyze the relationship of occurrence of micro vascular complications with its risk factors in a tertiary care teaching and multi specialty hospital. The targeted and opportunistic screening analysis shows that the mean age of diabetic subjects’ were 54.27±9.27 years and 72.09% of newly diagnosed cases. The overweight 37.20%, hypertension 30.23%, diabetic neuropathy 25.56%, diabetic retinopathy 11.62%, diabetic nephropathy 18.60% and in the present study, 55.81% of asymptomatic newly diagnosed type 2 Diabetes patients had at least one or more microvascular complications. Type 2 diabetes is characterized by a long asymptomatic period before it is diagnosed. In our study the results shows significant association of these risk factors in Type 2 diabetes and was treated as early as possible to decrease the progression of vascular complications
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