A STUDY ON PATIENTS’ AWARENESS, RECOGNITION MANAGEMENT AND PREVALENCE OF HYPOGLYCEMIC EPISODES IN TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Pharamceutical and Clinical Research - Year 2015, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Objective: To assess patients’ awareness on management of hypoglycemic episodes and analyzing the prevalence of hypoglycemic episodes inpatients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus.Methods: A prospective-observational comparative study was carried out for a period of 6 months in the outpatient unit of endocrinology and generalmedicine department. Patients who had hypoglycemic episodes were classified into mild, moderate and severe hypoglycemia with respective toage, anti-diabetic therapy and co-morbidities. Prevalence of hypoglycemia was calculated using prevalence formula; hypoglycemic episodes for antidiabetictherapy were compared using ANOVA and independent t-test.Results: Of 200 patients, (43%) were male and (57%) were female patients. Patients with systemic hypertension (30%) were more predominant thanother co-morbid conditions. According to anti-diabetic therapy (49.5%) patients were on oral hypoglycemic agents (OHA’s), (16.5%) on insulin and(34.5%) on both insulin and OHA’s. The calculated value of t (2.831) was greater than table value (2.45) and mean of OHA (24.75) was greater thanthe mean of insulin (8.25). Prevalence of hypoglycemia was (51%).Conclusion: The results from this study showed that more number of patients taking OHAs was found to experience hypoglycemia and patients withSHT as co-morbid condition were found to experience hypoglycemia than other co-morbid conditions. Prevalence of hypoglycemia was found to bemore in females and elderly population.Keywords: Hypoglycemic episodes, Prevalence, Insulin, Oral hypoglycemic agents, Co-morbid condition.
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Apuroopa Gadepalli, Nivarthi Sridhar Neha
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