Chronic complications in newly diagnosed South indian patients with type 2 Diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Diabetic patients are more likely to develop micro-as well as macro-vascular conditions. Many patients are prone to metabolic abnormalities, such as dyslipidemia, further contributing to the development of complications. Complications are the major outcome of type 2 diabetes mellitus progress, which reduce the quality of life of patients, incur heavy burdens to the health care system, and increase diabetic mortality. The present study aims to determine the prevalence and relationship between different complications of newly diagnosed type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients attending a tertiary care clinic. 150 consecutive newly diagnosed patients were evaluated and screened for retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, hypertension and hyperlipidemia. The frequency of positive screening tests for hyperlipidemia, hypertension, neuropathy, nephropathy and retinopathy was found to be 37.3 %, 32.6 %, 24.0 %, 4.0 %, and 2.0 % respectively. In this study complications are highly prevalent in newly diagnosed patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and there seems to be a strong concordance between chronic complications of diabetes mellitus. Thus, thorough screening of these complications in newly diagnosed diabetic proliferative ic patients is strongly recommended. In addition there is also an urgent need for population based studies evaluating the true disease burden related to complications in South Indian adult patients.