Diabetes Care in French Guiana: The Gap Between National Guidelines and Reality.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

French Guiana is a multicultural overseas territory in the Amazon, where precariousness and difficulties in access to care are widespread. The prevalence of diabetes is double that of other French departments, and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is high. The objective of the study was to analyze the biological, clinical and therapeutic follow-up of patients with diabetes mellitus using exhaustive data and to correlate it with national and European recommendations.

Material and methods

Using the national health insurance data, 9079 and 10075 patients with diabetes mellitus were analyzed in 2018 and 2019, respectively. We analyzed antidiabetic treatments, medical, dental, and podiatric consultations, examinations prescribed as part of the annual follow-up,

SUBMITTER: Sudre C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8670498 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature