Vaccinations Rates in the Elderly with Diabetes Mellitus

Sevnaz Sahin, Pinar Tosun Tasar, Yusuf Adnan Guclu, Hamide Sezgin Sengul, Niyazi Bozkurt, Alev Garip, Soner Duman, Fehmi Akcicek

Department of Family Medicine, Tepecik Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
Department of Internal Medicine, Ege University Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Ege University Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.

DOI: 10.4236/aar.2014.34038                

Abstract

Infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. Improvements in health care prevention including vaccinations and treatment have led to an increase in the birth life expectancy. The vaccines that are now recommended for people over 60 are influenza, herpes zoster and a vaccine combining tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and pneumococcal vaccine. Our aim was to estimate the prevelance of vaccination among diabetic patients attending in Tepecik Training Hospital and in Ege University Faculty of Medicine. Patients and Methods: Individuals at or over the age of 60 who were attending to Tepecik Training Hospital and at Ege University Faculty of Medicine. Department of Internal Medicine was targeted from February to May 2014. Our data are collected from the patients face to face by questionnaire. Results: A total of 274 elderly patients with a mean ± SD (range) age of 72 ± 6 (62 - 93) years were questioned. The vaccination ratios were determined as 34% (93) for influenza, 9.5% (26) for pneumococcal, 10.6% (27) for tetanus vaccine. The patients were divided in two groups as diabetics and non-diabetics. The influenza vaccination rate is 38.1% in diabetic patients, rate of 31.8% in non-diabetic patients, the pneumococcal vaccine rate is 13.4% in diabetic patients, rate of 7.39% in non-diabetic patients. The tetanus vaccination rate is 9.28% in diabetic patients, rate of 11.36% in non-diabetic patients. No statistically significant difference between two groups was determined.

Keywords

Vaccine, Diabetic, Elderly

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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