LIFE STYLE MODIFICATIONS AND GLYCAEMIC CONTROL AMONG PATIENTS ATTENDING DIABETIC CLINICS IN TEACHING HOSPITALS IN ENUGU STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the common conditions seen in primary health care. Chinenye, Uloko, Ogbera, Ofoegbu, Fasamande and Ogbu (2008) stated that DM is the commonest endocrine-metabolic disorder in Nigeria as well as in other parts of the world. It is a challenging chronic disease which affects vast population worldwide with life threatening complications such as nephropathy, retinopathy, foot ulcers and shortening of life span. In Sub-Saharan Africa, proportions of patients with diabetic complications ranged from 7-63% for retinopathy, 27-66% for neuropathy and 10-83% for micro-albuminuria. Diabetes is likely to increase the risk of several important infections in the region, including tuberculosis, pneumonia and sepsis, thus it has a double disease burden and increased economic cost (Hall, Thomsen, Herriksen & Lohse, 2011). World Health Organisation (WHO, 2008) reported that diabetes is a growing epidemic which threatens to overwhelm health services and undermine economies ...