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Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in elderly in a primary care facility: An ideal facility

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Title Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in elderly in
a primary care facility: An ideal facility
 
Creator Paranjape, Dr. Shilpa
Jain, Dr. Archana
 
Subject Urbanization
 
Description In 2011 census, 5.3% of the Indian population was > 65 years of age. This number has steadily grown over past few years and is steeply growing. Healthcare burden of elderly diabetics is immense and proper diagnosis and treatment alone can prevent further complications. According to the most recent surveillance data in U.S., the prevalence of diabetes among U.S. adults aged ≥65 years varies from 22 to 33%, depending on the diagnostic criteria used. In CSIR-NEERI, India, we have healthcare system wherein a fixed
and limited number of patients are treated for their lifetime by qualifi ed practitioners with negligible financial burden of the treatment costs. The patients have regular monthly follow up and hence we diagnose Diabetes and evaluate the control and diagnose micro vascular and macro vascular complications in all patients. We did retrospective analysis of all elderly patients following up in NEERI Hospital to fi nd the exact prevalence of T2DM in elderly. It was observed that from total 585 elderly people, 178 had T2DM (30.42%-Prevalence).The sex ratio of Diabetic males to females was almost equal (1:0.97).Obesity was present in 114 people (64%).High prevalence of hypertension was found in Diabetic elderly population (80%). Comparing our prevalence rates with few other studies,it was found that our prevalence rates are quite high. The contributing factors may be urban living, with high prevalence of central obesity and Asian ethnicity, over and above, data of all patients undergoing treatment is available. We treated all diabetics with persistent values of Systolic BP > 130 mm of Hg and Diastolic values of BP > 80mm of Hg as Hypertensives, in order to achieve
reduction in cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. This paper is for awareness of disease burden, in real primary care setup. It is not cross-sectional study but study with 100% inclusion of benefi ciaries’ .This is real world urban diabetes prevalence, also associated hypertension and central obesity prevalence.
 
Publisher Endocrine Society of India
 
Date 2013-10-11
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/392/1/IndianJEndocrMetab177318-8519187_233951.pdf
Paranjape, Dr. Shilpa and Jain, Dr. Archana (2013) Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in elderly in a primary care facility: An ideal facility. Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 17 (1). pp. 318-322. ISSN 2230-9500
 
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