Title: A Profile of Diabetic Complications in North West Region of Oman: A Preliminary Report
Authors: Hassan A. Sadek, Al Anoud O. Al Zaaabi, Sanmukh R. Joshi
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i1.20
Abstract
Background: Diabetes mellitus is known to be associated with health complications of kidney, heart, eyes.
Objective: In order to understand the gravity of complications prevailing among the diabetic patients living in the North West region of Oman, the country bordering the three states of the Arab World this retrospective analysis was undertaken.
Methods: The medical records on the patients with diabetes were accessed to analyse for kinds of complications developed over a period while during the hospital stay or attending the diabetic clinics.
Results: A significant association (p 0.0056) of complications involving organs like eye, heart and kidney was observed among the patients with Diabetic Mellitus Type 2 (DMT2). Those involving complications of eye (alone or together with other two complications) were significantly associated (p 0.0149) with the diabetic patients in the two categories.
Conclusions: The patients with good control of sugar got the complications much later in life as compared to those with a poor control of sugar. However, the extent of complications involved was found varied among different patients as well as the duration of the hyperglycaemic state.
Keywords: Diabetes, complications, Oman.
