Prevalencia de enfermedad cerebrovascular en pacientes diabéticos en medicina interna del Hospital Santo Domingo, mayo 2014-abril 2015.

Abstract

The present study, retrospective, observational, of transversal type has as main objective to investigate the prevalence of CVD in diabetic patients from the area of Internal Medicine of the General Hospital Santo Domingo, furthermore to describe the clinic characteristics of the CVD and determine the presence of another factors of risk. With a universe of 86 people diagnosed of CVD the greater percentage of them were diabetic (62,7% vs 37.3% non diabetic people). From the 54 patients the 100% are diabetic type 2 and the 87.1% of these suffer an ischemic CVD, the greater percentage is found within the elderly population with a 59% in people older than 70 years, 32 patients belong to the mal genre, in other words 59% vs 41 % of female genre, the 89% of patients belong to the mestizo ethnicity, the highest percentage of patients referring to marital status are single that is 28%, the 41% of the population only reaches the primary schooling, the reasons for consultation of CVD were very different being the principal with a 31% the loss of the level of consciousness; greater prevalence of CVD was found in the population with overweight 32% the majority of diabetic patients share another comorbidities, being the main AHT with a 89%. As a conclusion the Mellitus Diabetes constitutes a factor independent risk develop a CVD, This typically is of ischemic characteristics and exist another factors of metabolic risks that conduct to these patients to develop a CVD.