TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Kipuyo, Elisha. Glady 
AU  - Masikini,  Peter 
TI  - Prevalence and Risk Factors for Poor Glycemic Control among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients attending Treatment and Care at Bugando Medical Centre
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Mwanza, Tanzania: 
PB  - Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS - Bugando] :  
KW  -  
N2  - Abstract: 

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a rapidly growing health problem which carries high morbidity and mortality. According to WHO report in 2014 there was a total of 442 million adult patients who were living with DM representing a global prevalence of 8.5%. Comparatively there were only 108 million adult diabetic patients (4.7%) in 1980. 

Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was done which involved 151 Type 2 DM patients attending treatment and care at BMC. Data was collected for three months between January and March 2020 and analysis was done using SPSS software version 20. 

Results: In the study the 151 participants were enrolled 98 (64.9%) had a raised RBG of greater than 11.0mmol/l, 59.6% were not on a healthy eating plan as recommended by ADA where by 77.8% of the participants had poorly controlled glycemic levels. Also 59.6% don’t compliant to medications, 55.7% smoke and take alcohol and also 68.9% took herbal medications as part of treatment plan. A part from all these risk factors 51.7% of participants were obese overweight. 

Conclusion: Generally Uncontrolled Type 2 DM remain to be the problem among these patients as they don’t adhere to the seven pillars for self-management care as recommended by ADA.

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