Clinical and demographic profile of diabetic patients from Central India - Results from diabetes registry

Abstract

Objective: This study was done to analyse the demographic profile and presentation of diabetes in Central India. Design: Data was collected for this cross-sectional study from an electronic diabetes registry from 2014 to 2019. Demographic details, patient history and presence or absence of co-morbid conditions, duration of diabetes, age of onset of diabetes, drug history, personal history, presence of micro and/or macrovascular complications and investigations done were obtained. Statistical Analysis: The association between each factor and the outcome was studied in terms of prevalence ratio (PR) using the R-3.0.0 programming (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria) language. Statistical significance was evaluated at a 5% level. Results: Among 12,434 patients, 54.95% were below 50 years and 45.05% were above 50 years. 50.21% were females and 49.79% were males. The mean age was 47.49 ± 14.78 years and the mean body mass index (BMI) was 26.85 ± 5.19 kg/m2 with 62.29% of obese patients (>25 kg/m2). The mean overall duration of diabetes was 7.64 ± 7.63 years. Mean Glycosylated Haemoglobin (HbA1c) in patients 25 kg/m2 (P < 0.0001) and 3.643 times higher in hypertensive cases (P < 0.0001). Similar associations were observed with nephropathy, neuropathy and retinopathy. Conclusion: From a large population study on diabetes, it was found a majority of the type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) cases (65%) are sub-optimally controlled with HbA1c levels. Also, microvascular complications were related to the sub-optimal glycaemic control, but not the macro-vascular complications.

Keywords

• cvd
• diabetes
• hb1ac
• nephropathy
• neuropathy
• retinopathy