RESUMO
Objetivos: Determinar la prevalencia de diabetes mellitus tipo 2 en adultos mayores de 30 años residentes en Cartagena de Indias y caracterizar fenotípica y metabólicamente al paciente diabético en el año 2005. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of Diabetes mellitus type 2 in adults of 30 years or older, residentsin Cartagena, and to characterize metabolically and phenotypically our the diabetic patient.Methods: Study of descriptive approach and cross section. The sample included a total of 749 peopleobtained by means of a simple random sampling stratified by sectors. An interview was applied tocollect and to brief the information on variables of life styles, familiar antecedents and sociodemo-graphics, anthropometric and perimeter of waist and hip. Uninformed blood samples in determiningconcentration of glucemia and lipidic profile by enzymatic colorimetric methods were taken. When itwas necessary, test of oral tolerance to the glucose was made, to diagnose faults in the metabolism of theglucids. The analysis of results was made using the program Epi-Info 2005 and Microsoft Excel.Results: The prevalences by age and sex were of 8.93 percent for Diabetes mellitus type 2 , 1.73 por ciento for GlucoseIntolerance and 0.88 percent for Impaired Fasting Glucose. Most of the participants they were sedentaryand they were in obesity or overweight, presenting a high prevalence of metabolic syndrome in thethree categories (60.2 por ciento, 65 percent and 77.8 percent respectively). The findings force to conclude in the necessityto implement programs that promote healthful styles of life obtaining of that way to hit the profiles ofmorbimortality of this type of metabolic disorders.
