Clinical Characteristics of patients with Diabetes Mellitus 2 of Family Health Center Chiguay.

Introduction : Diabetes mellitus (DM) has a national prevalence near 4.2% and the worldwide fluctuates between 2 and 5%. The complications are caused by poor metabolic control and hence also by the poor management of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF), hence the importance of managing and reducing the CVRF, the main objective of control programs for DM. AIM: To characterize clinically to patients with DM2 who were cared for in the agenda of cardiovascular CESFAM Chiguay (commune of Chiguayante, region of Bio Bio) during the first 9 months of 2008. PATIENT and method S: Observational descriptivestudy, non-probability sampling a retrospective study was observational and descriptive, reviewing the ballots of each tabcontrol chronic clinic patients enrolled in the program Cardiovascular(VCP) from January to September 2008 in CESFAM “Chiguay.” Results : The study included 332 patients, of whom 67.77% were women and 32.23% men. Average age was 63.6 years. 47.59% were obese. 49.39% had a HbA1c levels at about 7%. 21.69% had an “optimal” control of LDL. 56.93% had blood pressure poorly controlled. Discussion : The most noticeable clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the diabetes type 2 found in our study were late aged dominance in females and obese. Almost 80% of the cases had higher levels of LDL and only around a half had good metabolic control, with HbA1c under7%. This could be explained because the studied subjects belongedmostly to a low socioeconomic status, which would lead to unbalanced diet, poor adherence to the treatment and poor understanding of their pathology.