scholarly journals Study of thyroid dysfunction in type 2 diabetes mellitus

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1815
Author(s):  
Mausam Jain ◽  
Pramod R. Jha ◽  
Gaurang Patel

Background: Aim was to study prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients.Methods: The present study was a cross sectional observational study, which focused on cases of diabetes mellitus. Study was conducted in Departments of Medicine, SBKS MI & RC, a tertiary care centre for a period of 6 months. All the patients of T2DM were included. Total of 263 patients were enrolled which involved indoor, outpatient and diabetic clinic attending patients. A detailed history taking, clinical examination and relevant investigations (Hb%, Total count, platelet count, serum creatinine, FBS, PP2BS, HbA1C, S.TSH, F.T3 and F.T4). Appropriate statistical analytics were used and important correlations and conclusions were drawn.Results: A study of thyroid dysfunction (TD) in T2DM patients which included 263 diabetic patients, out of them 67 had thyroid dysfunction. Out of these 67 patients 43 were female and 24 were male. This suggests that female was more prone to thyroid dysfunction than males. Out of 67 TD patients, 42 were above the age of 50 year. So, as the age increases the prevalence of TD also increases thyroid dysfunction also depends on the glycaemic control of the patients. Out of 67 patients 22 patients had>8.0 HbA1C level. In our study we found that as the glycaemic control became poorer the prevalence of TD increase in hypothyroid but not in hyperthyroidism.Conclusions: Following conclusions were drawn from this study TD is more common in female than male, more after the age of 50 year, in T2DM patients. Hypothyroidism is more common with poor glycaemic control and long duration of T2DM patients. But for hyperthyroidism data which we evaluated was not significant and further conclusion bigger study is needed.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (37) ◽  
pp. 3334-3338
Author(s):  
Satish Kumar

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes mellitus is common in the Indian population and awareness regarding the disease and its complications is low among the patients with diabetes. There is lack of studies regarding awareness of complications of diabetes among type 2 diabetic patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the awareness of diabetic complications among type 2 diabetic patients. METHODS This is an institutional based observational study. The sample comprised of 150 adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who underwent treatment in the Department of Medicine, Medical College Kottayam and the patient’s age ranged from 18 - 77 years. RESULTS Majority of patients were in the age group 38 to 57 and the sample comprised of 56 % males and 44 % female patients. Out of 150 patients involved in the study, 120 patients (80 %) were aware of the complications of diabetes mellitus. Among the male patients, 70 (83.33 %) and among females, 50 (75.75 %) were aware of the complications in diabetes. In the study sample, 92 (61.33 %) were aware of the foot problems, 120 patients (80 %) were aware of renal complications, 91 patients were aware regarding eye problems of diabetes, 38 (25.33 %) regarding development of hypertension, 62 (41.33 %) regarding heart attack, 42 (28 %) patients were aware regarding development of stroke and 78 patients (52 %) had awareness regarding occurrence of recurrent infections. CONCLUSIONS Awareness regarding diabetes and its complications is fairly good among the diabetic patients in Kerala. Awareness regarding all complications of diabetes was higher among males than females. Providing awareness to type 2 diabetic patients by various educational programs may be of further help to prevent complications and to decrease the mortality and morbidity in type 2 diabetes patients. KEYWORDS Awareness, Diabetes


Author(s):  
Abhishek Kamendu ◽  
Ahmad Nadeem Aslami

Background: Diabetes has become a major health challenge all over the world. Previous studies have found that diabetes and thyroid disorders mutually influence each other and both disorders tend to coexist. The aim of this study was to find out prevalence of hypothyroidism and its associated factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.Methods: Consecutive 200 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending outpatient department of medicine in a tertiary care centre in Sasaram, Bihar were evaluated clinically and biochemically. Subclinical hypothyroid and overt hypothyroidism was diagnosed as per standard definitions. The results obtained were statistically analysed by using chi square test and finding odds ratio.Results: Out of 200 patients, 75.5% were euthyroid while 24.5% were hypothyroid. Out of 49 hypothyroid patients, subclinical hypothyroid (SC-Hypo) was present in 41 patients and overt hypothyroid (C-Hypo) was present in only 8 patients. The prevalence of hypothyroidism was found more in males, age ≥60 years, patients with HbA1c value ≥7%, patients with diabetes duration less than 5 years and in hypertensive patients.Conclusions: Thyroid dysfunction screening should be done in all type 2 diabetic patients periodically and appropriate individualized treatments in addition to thyroid function test should be given to diabetes mellitus patients with subclinical hypothyroidism as well.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (52) ◽  
pp. 3142-3147
Author(s):  
Senthil Chander ◽  
Kalpana Dev Venkatesan ◽  
Christina Mary Paul

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is one of the leading endocrine disorders worldwide. Thyroid dysfunction is a common endocrine disorder affecting the general population next to diabetes. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among patients with Type 2 diabetes. METHODS This analytical cross sectional study was conducted from June 2019 to Dec 2019. One hundred and fifty type–2 diabetes patients who attended the outpatient clinic of General Medicine Department, ACS Medical College and Hospital were included in the study. A detailed history and examination was done after getting informed consent. Blood samples were collected and sent to the laboratory for the evaluation of thyroid profile. RESULTS Thyroid dysfunction was found in 27 % of the patients with diabetes. Subclinical hypothyroidism was the most common thyroid dysfunction reported (14.7 %) followed by clinical hypothyroidism (10 %), subclinical hyperthyroidism (2 %) and clinical hyperthyroidism (0.6 %). CONCLUSIONS Thyroid dysfunction is common in patients with type-2 diabetes. A substantial proportion of the diabetic patients with thyroid dysfunction have subclinical hypothyroidism. Unidentified thyroid dysfunction could negatively impact diabetes and its complications. Therefore, early and routine screening of thyroid is recommended in all patients with diabetes to reduce the burden of the disease. KEYWORDS Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus, Thyroid Dysfunction, Hypothyroidism


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Varma ◽  
R. Kant ◽  
P.P. Mishra

Introduction: In our country, number of patients of diabetes is increasing every year, so of depression. The emotional consequences of diabetes have been scrutinized in a number of studies and varying results about the association of depression with type 2 diabetes mellitus have been found. While depression may contribute to poor diabetes-related outcomes, diabetes and its complications may also contribute to poor depression outcomes. Both conditions may have common underlying biological and behavioural mechanisms, such as genetic susceptibility and common pathophysiological mechanism. AIM-To assess the prevalence and the factors associated with depression among the patients with type II diabetes mellitus.Materials and Methods: Single centre, descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted in tertiary care teaching hospital in India for a period of 8 months. 586 type II diabetes patients aged between 30 and 70 years were included. Patients taking mood elevator drugs, suffering from mental illness, gestational diabetes and type 1 diabetes were excluded from the study. Physicians Health Questionnare-9 (PHQ-9) with a score of ≥5 was used to make the diagnosis of depression.Results: Prevalence of depression among the diabetic patients found to be 49.48%. Many factors have been found to be associated with increased prevalence of depression among diabetic patients such as age, female gender, house wife, high BMI, diabetes duration, diabetes related complications, comorbid conditions and poor glycaemic control with poor follow-up.Conclusion: By managing both depression and diabetes concurrently, better outcome in patients and increase in overall quality of life can be achieved. Early detection and treatment of depression by effectively screening all diabetic patients for depression would help to bring down the severity of depression among these patients.Jour of Diab and Endo Assoc of Nepal 2018; 2 (1): 24-28


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Sanaa Al-Sumry ◽  
Thuraya Al-Ghelani ◽  
Huda Al-Badi ◽  
Mohammed Al-Azri ◽  
Kawther Elshafie

Background. Diabetes mellitus and thyroid diseases are common endocrine disorders in the general population and found to exist simultaneously. This study aimed to establish the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among Omani type 2 diabetics and its association with glycemic control. Methodology. A retrospective cross-sectional randomized primary and secondary care based study of 285 Omani type 2 diabetics, ≥ 30 years of age with known thyroid function. The following parameters were examined: age, sex, duration of diabetes, duration of thyroid disease, thyroid morphology, thyroid function, thyroid antibodies, and the mean glycated hemoglobin (mean HbA1C). The prevalence of thyroid dysfunction was compared to an independent control group of randomly selected healthy individuals with known thyroid function. Results. Thyroid dysfunction was found in 12.6% of the diabetic patients compared to 4.9% in the control group. The prevalence was higher among the diabetic females (86%) compared to diabetic males (14%). The commonest thyroid dysfunction among diabetics was overt hypothyroidism (4.6%). Subclinical hypothyroidism was the commonest thyroid dysfunction seen in less controlled diabetics at a mean HbA1c of 7.8 (± 0.7). Conclusion. Screening for thyroid dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus should be routinely performed considering the higher prevalence of thyroid diseases in this group compared to the general population.


Author(s):  
Shravani Bezawada ◽  
Anuradha H. V. ◽  
Pramila Kalra

Background: Diabetes Mellitus is a spectrum of common metabolic disorders whose management mainly lies in treating the patients with oral hypoglycaemic drugs and insulin along with the dietary and lifestyle modifications. Lipodystrophy is the most neglected adverse drug effect caused by injecting insulin. The main objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of lipodystrophy at the insulin injection sites in patients suffering from diabetes mellitus (Type 1 and Type 2).Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Endocrinology on 250 diabetic patients taking insulin injections based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. The demographic features and anthropometric measurements were noted. Insulin injection sites were examined clinically by inspection and palpation for presence of swelling like lipodystrophy, injection marks and signs of allergy like erythema etc. Lipodystrophy was graded from 0-3 and denoted as lipohypertrophy or lipoatrophy. The results were tabulated and presented accordingly.Results: In this study, out of 250 patients 17 (6.8%) patients presented with insulin induced lipodystrophy. Lipohypertrophy was the most common presentation and only one case presented with lipoatrophy.Conclusions: It can be concluded from the present study that lipodystrophy which is an important adverse effect due to insulin injection needs to be monitored regularly in every patient taking insulin for better control of glucose levels.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (15) ◽  
pp. 4160-4166
Author(s):  
Satyanarayana N ◽  
Ashoka Ashoka ◽  
Anil Mudda ◽  
Seetaram Seetaram ◽  
Jeetendra Kumar

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 251584142110563
Author(s):  
Koushik Shivakumar ◽  
A.R. Rajalakshmi ◽  
Kirti Nath Jha ◽  
Swathi Nagarajan ◽  
A.R. Srinivasan ◽  
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Background: Magnesium has an essential role in glucose metabolism, and hypomagnesaemia is common in diabetes mellitus. However, the relationship between serum magnesium and diabetic retinopathy is poorly understood. Aim: To determine the association between serum magnesium levels and retinopathy in type 2 diabetic patients with normal renal function and to correlate it with severity of retinopathy. Methods: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted in a semi-urban tertiary-care teaching hospital. Clinicodemographic profile and serum magnesium levels were determined in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) with (group 1) and without (group 2) retinopathy. Serum magnesium levels were correlated with the presence and severity of retinopathy. Results: Of 104 type 2 DM patients, 50 had retinopathy. Younger age, longer duration of disease and poorer glycaemic control ( p < 0.05) were found to be associated with retinopathy. The mean serum magnesium levels in patients with retinopathy and those without retinopathy were 1.63 ± 0.30 mg/dL and 1.76 ± 0.22 mg/dL, respectively ( p = 0.029). Reduced serum magnesium was associated with elevated fasting sugars ( p = 0.019) and female gender ( p = 0.037). On comparative analysis of patients with sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR), non-STDR and no retinopathy by ANOVA test, patients with STDR had significantly lower serum magnesium (1.55 ± 0.33 mg/dL) ( p = 0.031). Conclusion: Serum magnesium levels were lower in patients with diabetic retinopathy. Patients with STDR had lower serum magnesium compared with those without STDR. Summary Serum magnesium, studied extensively for its role in glucose metabolism, was found to be lower in patients with diabetic retinopathy compared with those without retinopathy. Sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy had significantly lower levels of serum magnesium.


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