Características clínico-epidemiológicas de la Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2 en el Policlínico Milanes. Municipio Matanzas

Introduction: diabetes mellitus shows a national prevalence of around 60 % and its complications are produced mainly due to a bad metabolic control; therefore the metabolic control management and reduction is the main objective of this disease’s control programs. Aim:  to characterize several clinical and epidemiologic variables of the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in three Family Physician Offices of the Policlinic “Milanes”, municipality of Matanzas, during the period from May 2013 to May 2014. Material and Methods: a cross sectional, descriptive study was carried out in a universe of 129 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in three Family Physician Offices of the Polyclinic “Milanes”; the sample was formed by 85 patients chosen by simple randomized sampling. The studied variables were: age, sex, toxic habits and personal pathological antecedents. Results:  the highest percent of diabetic patients were female ones and patients aged more than 70 years. According to the personal pathologic antecedents, arterial hypertension prevailed with 57 patients, for 67.1 % of the sample. When grouping the patients according to their toxic habits, it was found a low prevalence of smoking (14.1 %) and alcohol consumption (3.5 %). Conclusions: the female sex prevailed with an increase of the disease’s incidence beginning after the age of 60 years. Among other personal pathologic antecedents, arterial hypertension is associated, followed by vascular brain diseases. When grouping the patients according to their toxic habits, smoking predominated