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Healtcare: 11.6 percent of Romania's patients diagnosed with diabetes in the past year
As many as 11.6 percent of Romania's patients diagnosed with diabetes, meaning 100,000, checked in a hospital at least once in the past year for complications caused by this illness, reveals a research carried by the IMAS, commissioned by the Centre for Innovation in Medicine and released on Monday, World Diabetes Day.
Almost 40 percent of the diabetes patients included in the study were diagnosed by a physician as having sight problems, with heart conditions, at 37.5 percent, being the second most frequent complications in Romanian diabetes patients.
Neuropathies are a third category of complications occurring in 36.6 percent of the patients, while the physicians indicated kidney problems in 18 percent of the patients.
Diabetes prevalence in Romania is 10.3 percent in the persons aged over 18 years (1.8 million of Romanians are diabetes sufferers).
According to the study, 57 percent of the persons diagnosed with diabetes mellitus are men.
Of the respondents who were diagnosed with diabetes by a physician, 64.4 percent are 60 years old and over.
According to the study, 71.6 percent of the patients with diabetes have not seen a neurologist, 46.8 percent a cardiologist, and 45.2 percent an ophthalmologist over the past 12 months.
At the same time, almost 20 percent of the diabetes patients did not see a diabetes specialist over the last year.
Only 63 percent of Romanians diagnosed with diabetes say they are on a diet, and 56.7 percent say they do exercise, the research adds.
The InoMed-IMAS study was carried 27 October - 9 November on a nationally representative sample of 1,010 persons over 18 years old.