The association between social factors and poor-controlled fasting blood glucose level in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Thailand tends to continuously increase. In 2022, an increasing number of new cases diagnosed with diabetes was 300,000 patients per year. In 2021, the accumulated number of diabetes was 3.3 million. Nowadays, many researches showed the association between social factors, physiological factors and blood glucose level in diabetes. Even though, social factors have a varied degree of impact in each community.
OBJECTIVE: This research aimed to study the association between social factors and physiologic factors and poor-controlled fasting blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
METHODS: This cross-sectional study collected fasting blood sugar levels and questionnaires of personal data and questionnaires of 10 social factors which are measured in Likert’s scale in 79 type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with age more than or equal 35 years old. The research aimed to study the association between social factors and poor-controlled fasting blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus at Ban Jun Kha Health Promoting Hospital and Hua Wang Health Promoting Hospital from 1 May 2019 to 31 December 2020. We analyzed the statistic measurements using chi square, independent t-test and multivariable logistic regression.
RESULTS: The diabetic patients with age more than or equal 35 years old was 79 patients. There were 59 women and 20 men. The result showed statistically significant values with poor-controlled fasting blood glucose level was the age less than or equal 60 years old (adjusted OR=3.94, 95% CI: 1.36-11.38, p-value= 0.017) and alcohol drinking (adjusted OR=18.23, 95%CI: 1.51-219, p-value= 0.024).
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Poor-controlled fasting blood glucose level is associated with alcohol drinking and age less than or equal 60 years old. Due to the following laboratory limitations, seasonal fruits and health behaviors may affect fasting blood glucose levels in individuals. So, further research should control these factors such as controlling their diet.
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