Online ISSN: 2515-8260

To Study the Awareness About the Complications of Diabetes among patients of Type 2 Diabetes in a Tertiary Health Care Centre.

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Puneeta Gupta,Rohit Raina,

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Objectives: To study the awareness about the disease related complications in the diabetic patients who are, as yet, not suffering from any long-term complication. Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted involving 389 patients of type 2 diabetes for a period of two years, from March 2018 to March 2020 in a tertiary care centre. The patients having disease diagnosed with in last five years and not suffering from any diabetic related complication were included in the study. The questions pertaining to the knowledge about complications related to eyes, kidneys, nerves, brain and heart were asked and recorded. The data was entered in MS EXCEL spreadsheet and analysis was done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0.

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