2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2015.12.018
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Diabetes Mellitus in Peru

Abstract: Diabetes is a major health care issue in Peru that exposes difficult challenges and shortcomings. The national strategy for tackling diabetes includes promotion of healthy lifestyles; training primary care physicians and providing them with evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, safe and effective medications, and tools for monitoring treatment; and, finally, construction of a comprehensive health care network for early referral in order to prevent, detect, and treat diabetic complications.

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“…While in our study, albuminuria was defined as >30 mg/day, Francis et al defined it as >150 mg/g, which could increase the proportion of patients meeting the definition of CKD in our study [10]. Despite this, the prevalence of CKD in Peru is higher than other chronic diseases such as DM2, which in our country has a prevalence of 7% [17]. …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 84%
“…While in our study, albuminuria was defined as >30 mg/day, Francis et al defined it as >150 mg/g, which could increase the proportion of patients meeting the definition of CKD in our study [10]. Despite this, the prevalence of CKD in Peru is higher than other chronic diseases such as DM2, which in our country has a prevalence of 7% [17]. …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 84%
“…En vista que los dos principales factores de riesgo de la ERC, como son la DM y la hipertensión arterial (HTA) [30], son patologías de prevalencia creciente en nuestro país [31], un manejo multidisciplinario como ha sido sugerido por la Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) debería incluirse en ésta estrategia integral [29,32]. De igual forma, no se debe dejar de lado el aumento de la frecuencia de diagnóstico de las glomerulonefritis en Perú [33], que ha sido reportada como la principal causa de la ERC en HD en algunos estudios en nuestro país [12,13].…”
Section: La Enfermedad Renal Crónica Como Problema De Salud Pública Eunclassified
“…Por otro lado, la diabetes gestacional afecta a 16% de los embarazos. Es oportuno conocer que las prevalencias de sobrepeso, obesidad y síndrome metabólico en adultos son 34,7%, 17,5% y 25%, respecti vamente, siendo el síndrome metabólico mayor en las mujeres y los ancianos y en las localidades urbanas y de poca altura (25) .…”
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