Despite policy stating that primary care facilities should provide services for type 2 diabetes, studies have demonstrated that most dispensaries and health centers in Uganda do not provide such services. There is no national noncommunicable disease (NCD) surveys in Uganda, so information is from a few local surveys. Despite the increase in diabetes burden, interventions are still poor and epidemiological data are scarce. Globally, according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), there are 352 million adults with impaired glucose tolerance which is a high risk of developing diabetes by 2045.
In recent studies, low-income countries of Sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda have the fastest growing rates of diabetes mellitus whereby the diabetes population has drastically increased from an estimated 98,000 patients in 2000 to about 1.5 million in 2010 from a population of 30 million people.
In developing countries, 75% of diabetic patients are 45 years old and above and 25% of adults with diabetes mellitus are under 44 years. In developed countries, more than half of the people with type 2 diabetes mellitus are older than 65 years and only 8% are less than 44 years of age. It was found to affect 382 million (7.7%) in 2013 and was estimated to 483 million (8.3%) by the year 2030. Type 2 diabetes affects both the old and the youths and is highly associated with morbidity, mortality, and a high health cost to individual patients, their families, and countries. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with a combination of resistance to insulin action and inadequate compensatory insulin secretory response. Introductionĭiabetes mellitus (DM), also termed as “sugar,” is a chronic, noncommunicable disease (NCD) which has emerged as one of the leading global health problem associated with the pancreas in the production of insulin leading to hyperglycemia. Lastly, the presence of family history for diabetes, overweight, and being obese increases the chances of acquiring type 2 diabetes. This study also found that females and patients aged 61-65 years were most affected by diabetes. There was a high prevalence of type 2 diabetes observed in this study compared to studies done in previous years which raise a public health concern. Alcoholism, smoking, body mass index (BMI), and family history were found to be significantly associated with type 2 diabetes at value < 0.05. The age group most affected by diabetes was 61-65 years. 22.8% of diabetic patients were females as 7.8% were males. The overall prevalence of type 2 diabetes was 18.7% among the tested patients. Data were statistically analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 25 (SPSS Inc., USA) at. Questionnaires were used to collect data for factors associated with type 2 diabetes. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes was determined by the blood sugar of patients.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among patients aged 45-80 years attending Kanungu Health Centre IV from June to August 2019. This research was determined to access the prevalence and risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes on elderly patients aged 45-80 years attending Kanungu Health Centre IV, Kanungu District. Type 2 diabetes is a worldwide disaster including in Uganda, specifically in Kanungu District which had a rise in diabetic patients in 2018/2019 as compared to the 2017/2018 financial year.
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