Caracterização das pessoas idosas com diabetes mellitus reguladas para um ambulatório de condições crônicas da região central do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Objective: To describe the profile of elderly people with Diabetes Mellitus who accessed the Chronic Conditions Outpatient Clinic for Adults and Elderly People from 2019 to 2022. Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study that used secondary data from the project “Profile of users who accessed the outpatient clinic of hypertension and diabetes specialties at the Hospital Regional de Santa Maria”. Results: The sample included 1,017 elderly people, “54.5%” female, “58.7%” aged between 60 and 69 years old and “81.9%” were white. As for the health region, “80.4%” were from Verdes Campos. The most frequent municipalities were Santa Maria “42.9%” and Santiago “4.40%”. In the ICD-10 variable, associated hypertension and DM were the most frequent “85%”. Insulin was used by “53.1%”, “45.1%” had target organ damage, “55.4%” had sufficient self-care, “42.9%” had overweight BMI and “30.7%” they didn't smoke. Regarding missing data in the information system, the BMI with the highest percentage of unknown “31.8%” and target organ damage “49.4%” without answers. Conclusion: The elderly in the study were predominantly female, aged between 60 and 69 years old, white, from the Verdes Campos region, with Santa Maria being the municipality with the highest prevalence. Furthermore, they had hypertension and DM, target organ lesions, use of insulin therapy, sufficient self-care and did not smoke. However, inaccuracies in filling out the data made it difficult to confirm these results due to the high proportion of non-responses.