Relationship between Glycaemic Control, Duration of Diabetes and Types of Medications Used to Treat Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Attending the Diabetes Centre, Teaching Hospital Jaffna

Abstract

Background: Glycaemic control is based on the serum glucose level recommended by the WHO and helps diabetics to prevent diabetic-related complications. Glycaemic control may vary with different medications and the duration of diabetes. Objectives: To find the relationship between glycaemic control, the duration of diabetes and the types of medications used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes, attending the Diabetes Centre, Teaching Hospital Jaffna Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study and a systematic random sampling method was used to recruit 166 patients with type 2 diabetes. Data extraction sheet was used to collect information including HbA1c values which were obtained from the patient’s report. Descriptive statistics and Chi-squared test were carried out using SPSS. Results: Majority of the patients were females (60.8%) and half of the participants (50%) were >60 years. Duration of diabetes was >10 years of 32.5% patients and equal number (n=56) had the duration as 7%). Among the poorly controlled patients, majority (41.6%) had diabetes for >10 years while 46.1% had good control with the duration of 7%). More than half of the patients (56.9%) who consumed oral hypoglycaemic agents had good glycaemic control (HbA1c.