Rodríguez PD, Vega JJ, Viamontes GM, Arocha MY, Suarez DT, Cabrera HY

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Pre-diabetic patients are at risk of developing diabetes mellitus. Early diagnosis can prevent the onset of this metabolic condition. Objective: To identify the prevalence of patients with prediabetes during the medical check-up, and at the same time to characterize some clinical and epidemiological aspects. Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted at the Military Teaching Hospital Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy from Matanzas. The sample consisted of 434 individuals who were diagnosed with prediabetes. Results: The male sex predominated (88 %), being more frequent for both sexes the age group of 45 to 54 years. In the altered fasting glycemia category, there were 234 patients (54 %), 139 (32 %) with impaired glucose tolerance and 61 (14 %) patients with double prediabetes. The most frequent risk factor was dyslipidemia, followed by a greater and equal body mass index of 25 and age over 45 years. In the concomitant diseases, essential hypertension predominated (68 %) and ischemic heart disease (25 %). In the nutritional status, overweight and obese were predominant with 54 and 47 %, respectively. Conclusions: At secondary health care, a high prevalence of patients with risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus who did not know their condition was detected early.