TITLE:
Assessment of Diabetes Control Level and Associated Cardiovascular Risk Factors
AUTHORS:
Désiré Alain Affangla, Fabrice Doupa, Jean-Michel Amath Dione, Stéphanie Claudia Akanni, Hugues Elie Elame Ngwa, Djibril Marie Ba, Mohamed Cor Ben Omar Leye
KEYWORDS:
Control, Cardiovascular Risk Factor, Type 2 Diabetes, Senegal
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases,
Vol.13 No.12,
December
28,
2023
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality in type 2
diabetics patients. Our work aimed to assess the level of control of type 2
diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors. Patients and study
method: This was an observational cross-sectional study of type 2 diabetics
patients. The parameters studied were: sociodemographic data, lifestyle,
anthropometric data, levels of control of diabetes by the level of HbA1C, blood
pressure measured at the office and cholesterol. Results: 326 type 2
diabetics patients were collected. The sex-ratio was 0.35. The average age of
the patients was 58 ± 11
years. A physical inactivity remained present in 79 patients (24.23%), 2
patients (0.61%) continued to smoke. The prevalence of obesity was 21.16% (n =
69) or 25% of women and 10.4% of men (p = 0.01). Abdominal obesity was observed
in 151 patients (46.31%), 139 of whom were female and 12 male (p = 0.001).
Diabetes was sufficiently controlled in 65.34% of patients (n = 213) while cholesterolemia
and hypertension were controlled in 33.44% and 8.33% of patients respectively. Conclusion: Type 2 diabetes was frequently associated with other cardiovascular risk
factors. Control of diabetes and these factors was insufficient. Therapeutic education
of type 2 diabetics patients needed to be improved.