Incidencia de diabetes en estudiantes de la carrera de bioquímica y farmacia en la Universidad Técnica de Machala periodo 2023-2

Abstract

Hyperglycemia can lead to a serious stealthy and non-communicable disease such as diabetes, which is a major public health problem in our country, a disease that ranks second in deaths. The worldwide cases were 463 million diabetic inhabitants, according to data obtained by the diabetes federation in 2019. Where South and Central America have 31.6 million cases and at the national level the figures of the Ministry of Public Health in 2018 indicate that 8.5% of citizens aged 20-79 years have diabetes. The importance of the topic lies in the fact that diabetes has gradually become one of the most common chronic diseases with a high mortality prevalence, in such a way this research will provide results of the glucose tests that were performed, whose purpose is to predict, warn, inform and provide data on diabetes mellitus to the student community. The objective is to analyze the levels of blood glucose in students of Biochemistry and Pharmacy from fifth to tenth semester of the Technical University of Machala, using the colorimetric enzymatic method, in order to collaborate in the timely diagnosis of diabetes. The study was descriptive, prospective, with a quasi-experimental field design, conducted at the Technical University of Machala, in the Faculty of Chemical and Health Sciences, mainly from fifth to tenth semester of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, lost D2- 2023, between the ages of 21-30 years. Surveys and glycemia measurement were applied, tabulating the data in the Microsoft Excel program and with statistical base processed by JAMOVI version 2.4.11, which showed the following results: the frequency of consumption of junk food was few times with 65.6%, it is evidenced that 64. 9% of the students, the body mass index most frequently found was normal weight with 53.4%, 59.5% had a family history, the mean glucose was within the established range except in certain cases, and there was no significant difference with sex and glucose values. The risk presented by the Findrisk test was low with 38.2, followed by 29.0% to be taken into account, as for the correlation between food and glucose, the p was greater than 0.05, there was no correlation, with sedentary lifestyle the p 0.100 was greater than 0.05, there was no correlation, Body Mass Index did not present a correlation with glucose values with a p greater than 0.05, likewise family history. Sedentary lifestyle was the most predisposing factor, and there was no correlation between the factors and the glucose value, so it is recommended to expand the population and to carry out informative talks.