%0 Journal Article
%T Diabetes mellitus e ingreso hospitalario
%A Guzm¨¢n Cayado
%A Mayque
%A Acosta Gonz¨¢lez
%A Ariel
%J Revista Cubana de Investigaciones Biom£¿£¿dicas
%D 2001
%I ECIMED
%X to characterize the diabetic population admitted in the internal medicine service of "ciro redondo" hospital, it was designed a descriptive and prospective study of the patients hospitalized with this diagnosis during 1998. general data, data refering to the disease and the results of a physical examination were collected in a form prepared to this end. of 100 patients that were admitted during this period, 27 were excluded (19 for not cooperating and 8 because they had already been analyzed in a previous study). the group of analysis was composed of 73 patients. average age was 59.1 ¡À 14.6 and the time of evaluation was 12.3 ¡À 9.6 years. the systolic arterial pressure was 134.9 ¡À 28.6 and the diastolic was 78.1 ¡À 13.3 mm of hg. females predominated (67.1 %), as well as the white (78.1 %) and the non-insulin dependent diabetes (87.7 %). sepsis and discontrol were the main causes of admission, with 22 (30.1 %) and 16 (21.9 %) patients, respectively. arterial hypertension and ischemic heart disease had the highest incidence within the personal pathological history. of the total of patients, 38.4 % showed some neurologic alteration suggestive of diabetic polyneuropathy, 6.9 % had undergone amputation and other 6.9 % had ulcerations of the lower limbs. the level of information of the patients about the disease and its complications proved to be deficient
%K diabetes mellitus
%K hospitalization
%K patient admission
%K secondary health care
%K primary health care
%K risk factors
%K health education
%K patient education
%K health promotion.
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