THE EVOLUTION OF THE DIABETES MELLITUS IN SIBIU COUNTY DURING 2007-2009
Abstract:
The adult diabetes epidemilogy is one of the most deficitary aspects of this disease in our
country. Diabetes became a health problem with major importance for persons, medicine and society..
The asociate conditions and chronic complications in the prevalence of the diabetes is very
impressive.The biologycal impact of the disease is major, evaluated by the decrease of life
expectancy(mortality increase )due to the affected quality of life because of the acute and chronic
complications.The most common are diabetic retinopathy, neuropathy, hipertension, which occure to a
third of the newly diagnosed patients.The diabetes prevalence in Romania including both clinical
manifested forms and the subclinical ones (altered glucose tolerance ) varies according to geographycal
area and urban and rural enviroment between 2-9 procents of the population. Periodic epidemiologycal
studies are important for two reasons: they indicate the medical, social, financial, dimension of diabetes
in a given population; the comparative follow-up of the incidence and prevalence of diabetes can reveal
the diseases's tendency. Diabetes may be considered to have become an epidemic disease. The romanian
epidemics amplitude is evaluated by the five years prospective study- EPIDIAB.
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