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Long Term Complications of Diabetes Mellitus | ||
| KUFA MEDICAL JOURNAL | ||
| Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 359-365 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ihsan K. Abbas | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a group of chronic disease characterized by hyperglycemia. Glucose builds up in the blood stream leading to serious complications. This complications were considered in our finding. Materials and Methods: A random sample of 50 cases were collected from which our data is recorded. The information were collected by direct interviewing with the patients and also following their files, for some routine biochemical tests. Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the burden of diabetes and its complications in Endocrine Diseases Center of Al-Kindy Teaching Hospital - Baghdad, and to estimate the prevalence and complications among patients with this disease. Results: It was found that the case history that including age, sex, smoking shows no influence on the complications of diabetic patients, but in contrary the duration of disease shows a great significance on the complications. Conclusion: Our study had proved that the duration, age, sex, type of disease all have great impacts on the prevalence of complications, but no obvious influence of sex on prevalence of complications was found. | ||
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