Prevalence of microalbuminuria in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus and association with other risk factors

Abstract

Background-Microalbuminuria is a major risk factor for renal and cardiovascular events, and the early identification and treatment of patients at increased risk for Microalbuminuria may be instrumental to limit the excess renal and cardiovascular disease associated with type 2 diabetes. Objectives-To evaluate the prevalence of Microalbuminuria in newly detected patients of Diabetes mellitus type and to evaluate the association between age, BMI, glycosylated haemoglobin, levels of fasting plasma glucose, post-prandial plasma glucose, smoking and alcoholism and microalbuminuria in patients of newly detected Type 2 Diabetes mellitus. Methods- It was a Cross Sectional Study for a period of 18 months (January 2019 to June 2020) in patients attending the general medicine OPD and/or getting admitted in MEDICITI INSTITIUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES. We have enrolled patients with new onset diabetes mellitus at Mediciti Hospital over a period of 18months. All data is collected in individual case record forms with sample size was found to be104. . Chi-square and Fisher Exact test have been used to find the significance of proportion of incidence of microalbuminuria between various levels of study parameters namely BMI, Age, Duration of DM, GHB %, abnormal lipid profile. Results-The mean age of study population was 57.92 years.