Determinación de valores de glicemia en 2 centros gerontológicos de la ciudad de Ambato

Abstract

Diabetes is a disease that occurs due to several physiological and genetic factors such as age, family history, poor lifestyle, or dietary habits such as excess carbohydrates and sugars in their daily diet, thus giving rise to a glycemic disorder in the patient, identified as a hormonal imbalance, given by an alteration in the production of insulin, one of the triggering factors being a bad lifestyle. As the years go by, the percentage of older adults suffering from this disorder is increasing, which is why this research is focused on determining the glycemia values that indicate, together with the results of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) survey, whether these patients belonging to the elderly in gerontological centers may suffer from diabetes. The population with which we worked in the investigation were 100 elderly adults, institutionalized and non-institutionalized, to whom we applied a survey to identify factors associated with diabetes along with the analysis of glucose, having as a result that of the total group of non-institutionalized 35% presented elevated blood glucose levels, while in the institutionalized the alteration observed was 2%, where the population has an average age of 65 years and older