The The Relationship of Hypertension and Hyperglycemia in Elderly Patients with Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus attending the Health Services in Sub District Health Promotion Hospital, Bueng Kham Phroi Subdistrict, Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province

Abstract

This research is the descriptive research with cross sectional study. The objectives of this research were as following: 1 To screen of dementia in the elderly with high blood pressure and high blood sugar, 2) To study the relationship between personal factors and dementia in the elderly patients. The sample size were 65 elderly patients (both males and females) with high blood pressure and diabetes and who received health service in the Sub district Health Promotion Hospital Bueng Kham Phroi Subdistrict, Moo 11, Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province. Data were collected by using of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE-Thai 2002) questionnaires and Dementia Screening Tool-Region 11 (DST- R11) during August and October 2018. Data analysis, descriptive data were used descriptive statistics. Pearson's correlation coefficient statistics was used for analyzing correlation between variables. The results showed that 6 elderly people (9.2 percent) were suspected of having dementia. There were 5 females (7.7%) and 1 male (1.5%), aged 77-95 years. It was found that age-specific factor was statistically associated with the incidence of dementia at level 0.01