Prevalência da Diabetes Mellitus numa população aleatória da área urbana de Évora: caracterização de marcadores bioquímicos

• Autor(a) principal: Nabais, Joao
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Martins, Rosario, Pinto, Sara, Barroca, Maria, Calisto, Fernando
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/2521
• topic: Diabetes; Epidemiologia

The objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) among patients of a certified private Laboratory of Clinical Analyses of Évora (Portugal) and the characterization of the standard biochemistry parameters associated to the diagnostic or the evaluation of diabetes mellitus. We selected a sample of 7440 adults (age ≥ 20 years) tested for fasting blood glucose and analysed their metabolic parameters. The ADA – 2007 diagnostic criteria were used. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus was 10.2% and IFG, 16.8%. Both clinical situations were higher in men than in women (p<0.05) with prevalence rates increasing with age between 30 and 59 years of age (p<0.05) in IFG patients and between 30 and 69 years of age in diabetics (p<0.05). People with IFG and diabetes presented higher values of HbA1c, creatinine, total cholesterol, LDL - cholesterol and triglycerides, and lower values of HDL - cholesterol (p<0.001) than the healthy population. No significant differences were observed for microalbuminuria.