Abstract:

Background: Up to date, DM remains as significant public health problem in the World. Chronic Complications are the major outcome of diabetes mellitus progress is to reduce the quality of life of patients. One of the complication of diabetes is diabetic neuropathy in which there’s nerve damage. This study determines the prevalence of neuropathy in diabetic adult in-patient at BMC.

Method: This was a cross-sectional hospital based study that involved a total of 100 patients diagnosed with diabetic mellitus at BMC from April 2019 to July 2019. Social demographic and relevant information were collected using semi-structured questionnaires. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 20.0 software as per objectives.

Results: DM affected all age group, with high frequency 50% being elderly aged above 48 years. There was no significant difference between sexes of individual respondents as 51% were male while 49% were female. Most of them 66% were having orthostatic hypotension symptoms and only 34% with sign of orthostatic hypotension. About 19% of respondents were having GI autonomic neuropathy and 50% were having other associated neuropathies including 52% with sexual dysfunction. And 16% of patients were having more than three complications due to DM.

Conclusion: This study showed that most of DM patients admitted at BMC had DM complications. Mostly being diabetic neuropathy, with high frequency of patients having symptoms and sign of orthostatic hypotension, GI hypotension, GI autonomic neuropathy, sexual dysfunctions and other associated neuropathy.