A Retrospective Study on Prevalence of Hyperuricemia in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Dr. Usha Saroj; Dr Abhay Kumar

Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

A Retrospective Study on Prevalence of Hyperuricemia in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Dr. Usha Saroj, Dr Abhay Kumar

Abstract :

A Retrospective Studyon Prevalence of Hyperuricemia in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Aims�Weaimed to evaluate the prevalence ofHyperuricemia among patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a retrospective chart review.

Methods� : It was a retrospective chart reviewstudy, all documents either as hard copy or electronically stored of diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus were assessed for inclusion – exclusion criteria, and on qualification their small Socio-demographic data sheet was filled up and available lab reports were recorded in tabulated form.

Results�A total of 200 subjects were included for the study, 129 patients (64.5 %) were male and 35.5% (n=71) were female. Based on serum uric acid estimation a total of 55 patients had hyperurecemic, that consisted of 27.5% of the total sample size. On group comparison between non hyper uricemiaand hyperuricemic group but there was no siginificant difference on diabetic parameters.

Conclusions�This study finds a prevalence of 27.5% of hypothyroidism among diabetes mellitus.