Hospital admission to achieve glyceamic control in type 2 diabetic patient at King Abdul Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

In this study, the medical charts of 75 type 2 diabetic patients [37% were males and 63% were females] were reviewed for their data over a two-year period between October 2000 to October 2002 including age, sex, nationality, length of hospital stay, duration of diabetes, BMI and the three different modalities used to achieve glycemic control. There was no statistically significant difference between males and females in the duration of diabetes, blood sugar level at the time of admission or the length of hospital stay. However, females were significantly heavier than males with higher BMI. In 30% of the patients, a glycemic control was achieved by oral antidiabetic agents, in addition to other measures. 14.5% of the patients required insulin-oral antidiabetic agents combination therapy. 54.5% required insulin therapy with twice or multiple injection regimens. The mean length of the hospital stay was ten days