Abstract

AVILA, JUAN C.; BARENO, ADRIANA; CASTRO, JAIRO  and  ROJAS, CATHERINE. HYPERTENSION AND DIABETES GUIDELINES EVALUATION AND APPLICATION IN A CHRONIC DISEASE PROGRAM. rev.fac.med [online]. 2014, vol.22, n.2, pp.58-67. ISSN 0121-5256.

Introduction: The hypertension and Mellitus diabetes are two of the highly risky diseases that are not contagious and are the first causes of mortality in an international and national level. For this reason is important to control these diseases to prevent the progression of the illnesses, with a direct impact in the life style and in the costs of the services for the patients, because of this is important to evaluate the right use of the HTA and DM guides in the prevention and control programs of the ECNT. Methodology: A transversal descriptive study was run by a random stratified sampling. To evaluate the control of the patients according to the application of the HTA and DM guides in a group of users of the promotion and prevention programs of a medical services institution in Bogota. Results: A group of 425 Hypertension patients and 279 diabetic patients was obtain; with a trusting level of 95% and a precision level of 80%. In the hypertension program was found a fulfillment of the guide of 67.75% and a 60% of the disease control. About the diabetic patients that were evaluated was found a fulfillment of the guide of 62.75%, less of 1% pathology control and an acceptable control of 51%. Conclusions: With the application guide percentage is being achieved the control in the hypertension program according to what was expected, but in the program of diabetic patients was found an underachieve. For this reason a better application of the guides is needed for the control of these diseases and because of this an impact in the illness control and life style of the patients.

Keywords : Hypertension; diabetes mellitus; renal insufficiency; glomerular filtration rate.

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