Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Diabetes (Nov 2020)
P45 Survey about cardiovascular risk factors and carbohydrate metabolims alterations as a part of the International Diabetes Day
Abstract
Introduction: Diabetes is an entity that significatively increases cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. According to data from the 4th National Survey of Risk Factors (4ta Encuesta Nacional de Factores de Riesgo - ENFR), high glycemia prevalence or diabetes went from 9.8% in 2013 to 12.7% in 2018, with obesity as one of the main associated risk factors, whose prevalence increased more than 70% in the last 15 years. According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), it is foreseen that at least 578 million people will have diabetes by 2030. Objectives: To describe the data found through a survey about cardiovascular risk factors detection and carbohydrate metabolism alterations, as a part of the international diabetes day on the 14th of November 2019. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study from data collected during the campaign held on November 14th of 2019 in an institution of Buenos Aires, which was interdisciplinary and was held with medical staff of the diabetes service, infirmary staff, and the nutrition service students. This campaign consisted on inviting outpatient subjects who were nearby the medical center to participate. Therefore, after giving their verbal consent they were asked to do the following: 1) complete a survey about habits, diabetes history, arterial hypertension (AHT), cardiovascular disease (CVD), renal disease (RD); 2) anthropometric measures were taken (weight, height, waist circumference (WC); 3) capillary blood glucose was read with a refractometer. In order to do this report, the subjects who went through the procedures listed in 1) and 2) were considered. The categorical variables are described as percentages, whereas the quantitative ones are read as median /interquartile range, according to data distribution.
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