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. 2003 Dec;15(3):91-4.

Morbidity and mortality among diabetic patients admitted to Mulago Hospital, Uganda

M H Bateganya  1 , J R Luie  2 , A P Nambuya  1 , M A Otim  1
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Morbidity and mortality among diabetic patients admitted to Mulago Hospital, Uganda

M H Bateganya et al. Malawi Med J. 2003 Dec.

Abstract

Objectives: To document the causes of admission, clinical presentation and outcome of patients admitted with diabetes mellitus to our medical wards.

Setting: Medical wards of Mulago Hospital, teaching hospital and national referral for the government of Uganda.

Study design: Cross-sectional descriptive non-interventional study of diabetic medical admissions.

Results: During the study period 129 (4.2%) patients with diabetes mellitus out of 3103 total medical admissions were admitted. The commonest cause of admission was uncontrolled diabetes (48.3%) but infections were present in 27.7% of all the study patients. The commonest infections were pneumonia (15%) and urinary tract infections (11.8%). Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) was a cause of admission in 9.2% of all the study subjects. Glycaemic control was satisfactory among 50.6% (HbA1c less than 7) despite 84.5% of the study subjects being hyperglycaemic at admission (mean random blood sugar 20±9.0 mmol/L). Fifty-point seven of the subjects had long term complications of diabetes at admission with hypertension (53.8%) and peripheral neuropathy (38.3%) being the commonest. There were 13 deaths (10.8%) and 61.5% of the deaths were among patients admitted with infections. The average length of hospitalisation was 9.5±4 days.

Conclusion: The results show that the commonest causes of admission were uncontrolled diabetes and infections. The mortality rate was 10.8%.

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