Tracking cognitive deficit in elderly with diabetesmellitus
Rastreamento de déficit cognitivo em idosos com diabetes mellitus
Mundo Saúde (Online); 41 (3), 2017
Publication year: 2017
To track the cognitive deficits of type 2 diabetics and to correct the cognitive deficit with socioeconomic and demographicdata. An analytical, cross - sectional study of a quantitative approach, carried out with 240 elderly patients attending theendocrinology department of the University Hospital Presidente Dutra in São Luís - MA.
Two instruments were used forthe collection:
the first one on the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the elderly and the second calledMini-Mental State Examination -MEEM. Epiinfo version 7.1.4 was used to calculate the relative frequencies and crossreferencedvariables such as age, sex, race / color, occupation, income, marital status and schooling, with MMSE results.significance level p <0.05. The highest prevalence of elderly people with a probable cognitive deficit (57.5%), amongthem, the most prevalent female sex (73.9%), brown race (73.9%), one to three years of complete study 82.4%), married(43.5%), retired (82.6%), with a monthly income of a minimum wage (69.9%). Based on these data, the importance ofan overall evaluation of these elderly people and of public policies aimed at the integral promotion of the health of theelderly for an early detection of these cognitive declines, as well as to detect early signs of these early, as they may be apercussion of dementia and consequently disorders generated in the individuals, family and society
Rastrear o déficit cognitivo de idosos diabéticos tipo 2 e correferir o déficit cognitivo com dados socioeconômicos edemográficos. Estudo analítico, transversal de abordagem quantitativa, realizado com 240 idosos atendidos no setor deendocrinologia do Hospital Universitário Unidade Presidente Dutra em São Luís - MA.