Determinación de la hemoglobina glicosilada como control en la automonitorización de pacientes diabéticos de consulta externa del Hospital Teófilo Dávila de enero junio 2013.

Abstract

A prospective observational study was conducted to determine the levels of glycosylated hemoglobin A1c ( HbA1c) as a parameter of metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus from Teófilo Davila Hospital of the city of Machala. A sample of 50 patients who self monitoring and 50 patients who did not perform are performed is selected. Regarding patients who performed self-monitoring correspond to 24% male and 76 % female gender . Most of the patients are between 46 and 65. 54% of patients have insulin treatment . Capillary blood glucose by 66 % of the patients ranged from 70 110 mg / dl. This was an indication that patients maintain sugar controlled values .