ECE2013 Poster Presentations Diabetes (151 abstracts)
HbA1c levels did not correlate with SF-36 and DQOL scores in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes
Soner Cander 1, , Ozen Oz Gul 4, , Oguzhan Sitki Dizdar 3 , Aysen Akkurt 2 , Metin Guclu 1 , Ercan Tuncel 2 , Erdinc Erturk 2 & Canan Ersoy 2
1Bursa Sevket Yilmaz Education and Research Hospital, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Bursa, Turkey; 2Uludag University Medical School, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Bursa, Turkey; 3Uludag University Medical School, Internal Medicine, Bursa, Turkey; 4Bursa Cekirge State Hospital, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Bursa, Turkey.
Aim: To evaluate the relationship between glycemic control and quality of life parameters in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes.
Methods: Fifty patients with poorly controlled (HbA1c 8–12%) type 2 diabetes included the study and were answered DQOL and SF-36 questionnaires to an assistant in internal medicine. HbA1c levels, age, gender, duration of diabetes, height, weight and waist–hip ratio measurements recorded at the same time.
Results: Mean age of the patients was 55.5±7.5 (26 erkek/24 female) and mean duration of diabetes was 7.02±2.8. Body mass index (BMI) and waist–hip ratio (W/H) means were found 29.0±4.4 and 0.93±0.06. DQOL and SF-36 scores were found 98.5 and 89.2, mean HbA1c was 1.2±9.5% in all patients. HbA1c levels did not correlate with DQOL and SF36 scores (R=0.06 (DQOL), −0.19 (SF36)) when Pearson’s correlation analysis performed. There were not correlations between quality of life scores and height, weight, BMI, waist–hip ratio values. Overall, the percentages values of quality of life were lower in the patients. When patients divided into two groups with HbA1c values (<9% and above), mean SF36 and DQOL scores were 86.8 and 96.4 in higher A1c group. In the low A1c group, mean SF-36 score and DQOL score was found 92.9 and 101.6. There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of quality of life.
Conlusion: In our study, diabetes-related complications, education and social status of patients has not been evaluated. Only the relationship between quality of life measures with glycemic control and the values of physical parameters were examined. In our conclusion, quality of life values are generally lower in patients with poorly controlled diabetes and does not correlate with levels of glycemic control.
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