Volume : 7, Issue : 7, July - 2018

A Retrospective Study on Prevalence of Hyperuricemia in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Dr. Usha Saroj, Dr Abhay Kumar

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">A Retrospective Studyon Prevalence of Hyperuricemia in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Aims&mdash;</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Weaimed to evaluate the prevalence ofHyperuricemia among patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a retrospective chart review.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Methods&mdash; </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">: It was a retrospective chart reviewstudy, all documents either as hard copy or electronically stored of diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus were assessed for inclusion &ndash; exclusion criteria, and on qualification their small Socio-demographic data sheet was filled up and available lab reports were recorded in tabulated form. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:200%"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:200%"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Results&mdash;</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">A total of 200 subjects were included for the study, 129 patients (64.5 %)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>were male and 35.5% (n=71) were female. Based on serum uric acid estimation a total of 55 patients had hyperurecemic, that consisted of 27.5% of the total sample size. On group comparison between non hyper uricemiaand <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>hyperuricemic group but there was no siginificant difference on diabetic parameters. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Conclusions&mdash;</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">This study finds a prevalence of 27.5% of hypothyroidism among diabetes mellitus. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>