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RUIZ PRIETO, Nidia Vivian  e  FRANCO, Fabián. Motivos de internación en pacientes diabéticos en el Servicio de Clínica Médica del Hospital Regional de Ciudad del Este en el año 2016. Rev. Soc. Argent. Diabetes [online]. 2021, vol.55, n.1, pp.21-26. ISSN 0325-5247.

Introduction: diabetes mellitus is a chronic non-communicable disease described since ancient times, in which the metabolism of carbohydrates is mainly altered. Paraguay faces a significant social deficit regarding the Millennium Development Goals. The latest mortality data is from 2015, with diabetes mellitus in 2nd place as the cause of death of the general population from 2013 to 2015. Objectives: identify the main reasons for hospitalization, and the demographic distribution according to sex and age of diabetic patients in the Medical Clinic Service of the Regional Hospital of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, in the year 2016. Materials and methods: the study was carried out during the months of April to October 2018, at the Regional Hospital of Ciudad del Este. The population corresponded to all patients, over 18 years of age, admitted to the inpatient ward of the aforementioned healthcare center in the aforementioned period with a diagnosis of DM corroborated by corresponding laboratory tests. All patients who met the diagnostic criteria for diabetes were included: fasting serum glucose equal to or greater than 126 mg/dl, serum glucose greater than 200 mg/dl at any time with clinical symptoms of diabetes and glycated hemoglobin> 6.5 %. All those patients who did not meet these criteria were excluded. Results: 245 patients with a diagnosis of diabetes were found, of which 241 were included. The mean age of all patients was 59.92 years, the standard deviation was 14.71, with the minimum age being 15 years and the maximum age of 90 years. 126 patients were admitted for infectious conditions, which represented 52% of the total. The patients admitted for other causes, other than some type of infection, were 115 patients, which represented 48%. Among the patients admitted for infectious and non-infectious causes, other subgroups were discriminated by affected systems and etiologies. The main cause of admission was found in skin and soft tissue infections with a total of 61 (25.3%), and there were 43 (17.5%) patients with lower extremity infection, of which 22 (9,1%) had diabetic foot. The less frequent causes were those of the gastrointestinal, hematological and osteoarthro-muscular systems, which had 1 (0.4%) patient each. Conclusions: the main cause of hospitalization of diabetic patients admitted to the Medical Clinic Service of the Regional Hospital of Ciudad del Este in 2016 was due to infection of white parts with 61 patients (25.3%), of which 43 (17.5%) of these due to lower extremity infection and 22 (9%) were due to diabetic foot. The demographic determination according to sex was 127 (53%) female and 114 (47%) male. The mean ages of all patients was 59.92 years, the standard deviation of 14.71; being the minimum age of 15 years and the maximum of 90 years.

Palavras-chave : diabetes mellitus; hospitalization; complications.