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Glycemic Control and its Associated Factors Among Diabetes Mellitus Patients at Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Mekelle-Ethiopia

Abstract

Globally, diabetes has killed 4.6 million people in 2013 alone and more than 77% of morbidity and 88% of mortality occur in low- and middle-income countries. Glycemic Control in diabetes patients is an important issue in minimizing diabetes related complications and deaths. But in Sub-Saharan Africa it was limited because of insufficient healthcare systems; scarcity of training in diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, the finding of this study will fill the gap on glycemic control and its factors. The global dominance of diabetes among adults over 18 years aged has risen from 4.7% in 1980 to eight .5% in 2014. Diabetes prevalence has been increasing sooner in middle- and low-income countries. Diabetes may be a major explanation for impaired vision, renal failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation. In 2016, an assessed 1.6 million deaths were directly caused by diabetes. Another 2.2 million deaths were due to high blood sugar or Diabetes in 2012. Almost half all deaths due to high blood sugar or Diabetes occur before the age of 70 years. WHO estimates that diabetes was the seventh prominent explanation for death in 2018. The pervasiveness of diabetes for all age-groups worldwide was assessed to be 3% out of 3000 and 5.2% of each 2080.

Habtamu Wondifraw

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