| dc.contributor.author | Ngugi, Paul N | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-23T12:27:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-23T12:27:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1989 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Degree of Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/24899 | |
| dc.description | A thesis submitted in part fulfilment
for the degree of Master of Medicine
(Internal Medicine) at the University
of Nairobi. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Between June 1989 and December 1989, a total of 359
diabetic patients were seen and screened for proteinuria.
156 patients were females and 203 males, a male:female ratio
Of 4:3. Their ages ranged from 11 years to 90 years the
mean age being 51.8 years. Most of the patients were noninsulin
dependent (65.2%).
Clinical diabetic nephropathy was found in 57 (15.8%)
of the patients. The prevalence of diabetic nephropathy
increased with duration of diabetes in the insulin dependent
diabetics the lowest prevalence being 3.2% at 0 to 5 years
of diabetes mellitus and the highest 60% at 16 to 20 years.
However, this relationship between the prevalence of diabetic
nephropathy and duration of diabetes was not found in the
non-insulin dependent diabetics.
Diabetic retinopathy was found in 73.6% of the patients . with diabetic nephropathy and hypertension in 35%. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
| dc.title | Diabetes nephropathy as seen in Kenyatta National Hospital in 1989 | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |
| local.publisher | School of Medicine | en |
