tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Patients' opinion on the barriers to diabetes control in areas of conflicts: The Iraqi example"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Patients' opinion on the barriers to diabetes control in areas of conflicts: The Iraqi example. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Research Patients opinion on the barriers to diabetes control in areas of conflicts The Iraqi example Abbas Ali Mansour Address Assistant Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine Basrah College of Medicine Basrah Hattin post office Box 142 Basrah 42002 Iraq Email Abbas Ali Mansour - aambaam@ Open Access Published 24 June 2008 Conflict and Health 2008 2 7 doi 1752-1505-2-7 Received 31 March 2008 Accepted 24 June 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 7 2008 Mansour licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background The health system in Iraq has undergone progressive decline since the embargo that followed the second gulf war in 1991. The aim of this study is to see barriers to glycemic control form the patient perspective in a diabetic clinic in the south of Iraq. Methods A cross sectional study from the diabetes out-patient clinic in Al-Faiha general hospital in Basrah South Iraq for the period from January to December 2007. The study includes diabetic patients whether type 1 or 2 if they have at least one year of follow up in the same clinic. Those with A1C 7 were interviewed by special questionnaire that was filled in by the medical staff of the clinic. The subjects analyzed in this study were adults 18 years old with previously diagnosed diabetes n 3522 . The duration of diabetes range from 1 to 30 years. Results Mean A1C was 2 percent with 835 patients with A1C less than 7 and 2688 equal to or more than 7 . Of 3522 studied patients were men and were women with mean age of year and age .