THE STATE OF DIABETES IN THE POPULATION OF THE SKOPJE REGION DURING 2020

Naim ISLAMI, Aneta JANKOSKA, Valentina SIMONOVSKA

Abstract

Introduction: Diabetes is a chronic disease that can lead to cardiovascular disease, blindness, kidney failure, limb loss and death. It causes suffering to about 60 million people in the European region who are currently living with the disease. Goal: The main objective of this research is to present the diabetes situation in the Skopje region for the year 2020. Material and methods: Individual applications received electronically through the National Electronic Records System 'My Term' were used as material. The method of work is statistical-informative, a descriptive analysis was made. Results and discussion: From the analysis of the processed data, it follows that in terms of gender distribution, a slight predominance of the female gender (by 10%) can be seen in relation to the male. The highest percentage is in the age group of 65-69 years (men-7.57%, women-10.25%). In the age group of 0-6 years there are 5 cases of registered diabetes. A total of 145 patients with type 1 diabetes were registered, or slightly more than one percent (1.02%) of the total registered diabetes for 2020 in the Skopje region. Conclusion: A total of 14.132 diabetics were registered in the Skopje region for 2020. The most common co morbidity of registered patients with type 2 diabetes in the Skopje region for 2020 is Essential (primary) hypertension (I10) - 84.98%. The most common complications of type 2 diabetes among registered patients for 2020 in the Skopje region are peripheral circulatory complications – E11.5 (40.2%).

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