Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus among Stroke patients in King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Buraidah, 2018

Authors

  • Mohammad Saleh Alsumaani1, K. Chandra Sekhar2

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v11i3.2555

Keywords:

Age, sex, Diabetes, hypertension, lipid status, Stroke, BMI.

Abstract

Background: Globally there is a paradigm shift is started from increasing non communicable diseases
trend,of which diabetes mellitus is increasing and it acts as a background for shoot up of stroke cases
in the society. Stroke is having significant impact on mortality, morbidity, also leads to physically and
economically making the person as handicapped.
Objectives: To estimate the prevalence, glycaemic control and risk factors of the diabetes mellitus among
the stroke patients.
Methodology: This was a institutional based cross sectional study carried out in the King Fahad Specialist
Hospital (KFSH), Buraidah. Sample size of 134 among the stroke patients during the period of June 2018 to
June 2019. Data was entered in SPSS version 21.0 and necessary statistical tests like simple proportions, chi
square test and logistic regression analysis were applied.
Results: prevalence of Diabetes mellitus among the stroke patients was 33.6%. Of all the stroke patients,
about 85.1% were having any limb (upper limb or lower limb) weakness or paralysis. Approximately 68.2%
were having Hb A1 C level > 7% among the diabetes with stroke patients and near to 80.6% patients were
from ischaemic stroke. Hypertension was significantly associated with diabetes among the stroke patients
(P<0.01).
Conclusions: Based on the study results,prevalence of diabetes among stroke patient was relatively little
high, two thirds of diabetic patients were having poor glycaemic control. In addition to diabetes, we found
high prevalence of hypertension, dyslipidaemia among the stroke patients.

Author Biography

  • Mohammad Saleh Alsumaani1, K. Chandra Sekhar2

    1R4 Resident, SBFM, Family Medicine Academy, Qassim Province, 2Professor & Trainer at SBFM,
    Family Medicine Academy, Qassim Province

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Published

2020-03-26

How to Cite

Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus among Stroke patients in King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Buraidah, 2018. (2020). Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 11(3), 2137-2142. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v11i3.2555