%0 Journal Article %T Trastornos de la glucemia y de la acci¨®n de la insulina en una poblaci¨®n de riesgo de diabetes %A Berm¨²dez Rojas %A Sergio %A Buchaca Faxas %A Emilio %A Su¨¢rez del Villar %A Yusim¨ª %A Rodr¨ªguez Amador %A Lays %A Alonso Rodr¨ªguez %A Celia A. %A Mansur Luzardo %A Martha %A Rosell¨® Silva %A Nelson %J Revista Cubana de Endocrinolog£¿-a %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X objective: to know the hyperglycemia frequency and resistance to insulin in a group of patients with risk of carbohydrates metabolism disturbances. methods: a cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in a population from the reina polyclinic. a total of 118 patients were studied to measure the fast and postprandial glycemia after an oral load of glucose e insulinemia. for insulin-resistance calculus homa-ir index was applied. results: there was a 5.1 % of diabetic patients aged over 60 and hypertensive; 25.4 % of sample showed some degree of hyperglycemia in the pre-diabetes rank. glycemia disturbances increased in a parallel way to age increase (p= 0.005). insulin-resistance was detected in 21,2 % of total of included patients and in 53.8 % of those presenting with some hydrocarbon metabolism disturbance being more marked in diabetic patients affecting to 83.3 % (p= 0.001). conclusions: hyperglycemia-associated disturbances and insulin-resistance associated with hyperglycemia are frequent in clinical practice when risk group are studied due to diabetes. %K prediabetes %K fast dysglycemia %K altered glucose tolerance %K insulin-resistance. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1561-29532009000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en