Chronic complications of Diabetes: the most incident between September 2021 and September 2022

Nicole Mendes and Mauro Oscar Grossmann

SCT Proceedings in Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations, 2023, vol. 1, 10.56294/piii2023136

Abstract: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic clinical syndrome characterized mainly by hyperglycemia, due to a defect in insulin secretion, which consists of changes in the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. Diabetes is a disease prone to chronic problems and becomes a risk factor for various pathologies. Through an observational, descriptive, retrospective quantitative study, based on patients hospitalized for chronic complications of diabetes at the Ezeiza hospital between September 2021 and September 2022, to statistically know which of the complications is the most incident. 56 patients hospitalized for chronic complications of diabetes were analyzed in the period from September 2021 to September 2022 at the Ezeiza hospital and it turned out that all patients presented diabetic foot as a complication, being the most incident. Of the 56 patients, 28 presented only diabetic foot as a chronic complication (50%), 20 patients presented diabetic foot, retinopathy and nephropathy (35.72%), 5 presented neuropathy and diabetic foot (8.92%) and 3 patients they presented diabetic foot, retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy (5.36%). Through this study it was evidenced that the chronic complication of diabetes in the Ezeiza hospital between September 2021 and September 2022 is the diabetic foot

Date: 2023
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