TY - JOUR AU - Gillani, Wasif AU - Sulaiman, Syed AU - Sundram, Shameni AU - Sheikh Ghadzi, Maisharah AU - Haroon, Noor AU - Md Hanafiah, Nur Hafzan PY - 2012/09/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Risk factors for long term complications among patients of endocrine clinic in Hospital Penang, Malaysia JF - Journal of Health Sciences JA - JHSCI VL - 2 IS - 2 SE - Research articles DO - 10.17532/jhsci.2012.47 UR - https://www.jhsci.ba/ojs/index.php/jhsci/article/view/66 SP - 104-117 AB - <strong>Introduction:</strong> The prevalence of diabetes is on the increase and an estimated 239 million people worldwide are expected to have the condition by the year 2020 (1). Diabetes mellitus (DM) represents a serious health<br />care challenge. The aim of the study was to evaluate the patient clinical characteristics and risk factors for long term complications in the endocrine clinic of Hospital Penang, Malaysia.<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> Descriptive Prospective cross-sectional study design was chosen. To achieve a power of 0.7 with alpha set at 0.05, 186 subjects were required for the study but researcher increase the sample to 297 in case<br />of drop out. Self-developed data collection form was used to collect the patient information.<br /><strong>Results</strong>: 297 (100%) patients were enrolled from OPD diabetic clinic of Hospital Palau Pinang. Among the sample 150 (50.5%) were males and rest 147 (49.5%) females. Malay males mean weight at the time of diagnosis significantly higher (p&lt;0.001,) as compared to other ethnics, same results found among Malay females (p&lt;0.001). Findings suggested increased number of risk factors among the study population. Finding also<br />showed that hypertension found among all the classes of diagnosis. Signifi cant variable are diagnosis class and medication consideration.<br /><strong>Conclusion</strong> of the study suggested that majority of patients are at high risk of long-term complications and comorbidies. It has been found that increased rate of risk factors have been found among the study population and non-significant to sociodemographic differences. ER -