Juvenile Diabetes Mellitus At Kenyatta National Hospital: Control Parameters, Level Of Control And The Factors Which Influence This Control
Abstract
40 Juvenile Diabetics attending the
Diabetes clinic, Kenyatta National Hospital are
studied. These form 11% of the Juvenile Diabetics
population and 1.7% of the total population of
diabetics as registered in the Kenyatta National
Hospital Diabetes Clinic Register by September,
1977.
In only 1/4 of these patients is diabetes
controlled ( using the parameters of ;a single
determination of fasting plasma glucose, a 2
hours post prandial plasma glucose and fasting
urine glucosuria by both clinistix and clinitest ).
Some of the causes of this poor control
are investigated and an attempt is made to correlate
control using the level of glucosuria to control
using the fasting plasma glucose level. Literature
is reviewed in connection with the merits and
demerits of rigid diabetes control and criteria
of diabetes control used in the past and those
currently in use. Some suggestions are made as
to how better control can be achieved in our
population and further a few future research
projects in the field of diabetes are suggested.
Citation
Masters of MedicinePublisher
University of Nairobi