La incidencia de diabetes en la población de 40 a 60 años en el casco urbano del cantón Pelileo mediante el uso de hemoglobina glicosilada

Abstract

Diabetes is one of the diseases with the highest prevalence and incidence worldwide, for this reason, the measurement of glycosylated hemoglobin for the diagnosis of this pathology has become essential today. Several studies demonstrate the effectiveness of this laboratory test to determine signs of diabetes in the population. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the incidence of diabetes in the population between 40 and 60 years of age in the urban area of Pelileo through the use of glycosylated hemoglobin, it was obtained as a result that 64% of the participants in this study were in a normal range, 26% presented a diagnosis of prediabetes and 10% of the study population was diagnosed with this pathology, by calculating the incidence, it was possible to observe that 13 out of 80 subjects develop this pathology. A sociodemographic survey was applied, in which information was collected such as age, preventive controls to prevent diabetes, family member suffering from diabetes, and the body mass index. It is concluded that glycosylated hemoglobin has a statistically significant relationship with the age variable p 0.005, the family variable suffering from diabetes p 0.000 and controls to prevent diabetes p 0.030 for the other variables applied in the survey no significance was found