Glycaemic control and avenues for improvement among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus from rural Sri Lanka - a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The majority of Sri Lankans and South Asians are rural dwellers but follow-up data on glycaemic control and its associations in rural communities are sparse. We followed up a cohort of hospital-based rural Sri Lankans with diabetes from diagnosis up to 24-months.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of people with type-2 diabetes (T2DM) diagnosed 24 months before enrolment who were being followed up at Medical/Endocrine clinics of five hospitals selected by stratified random sampling in Anuradhapura, a rural district of Sri Lanka from June 2018 to May 2019 and retrospectively followed them up to the diagnosis of the disease. Prescription practices, cardiovascular risk factor control and their correlates were studied using self-administered and intervi

SUBMITTER: Mettananda C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10305889 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature