DIABETES MELLITUS

Objectives: To determine the frequency of hypophosphatemia in patientswith diabetes mellitus. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Period: Six months. Setting:Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad. Patients and methods: All the patients of ≥35 yearsof age, either gender with known cases of diabetes mellitus type 2 for one year duration wererecruited, enrolled and evaluate for serum phosphate level. The data was analyzed in SPSS 16and the frequency and percentage was calculated. Results: During six months study period,total one hundred patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were studied for serum phosphatelevel. The mean age ±SD for overall population was 53.85±7.63 whereas it was 54.53±6.87and 55.93±6.94 in male and female populations respectively while the mean ±SD for serumphosphate in male and female population was 1.52±0.74 and 1.90±0.93 respectively. Thehypophosphatemia was observed in 67% patients of which 37(55%) were males and 30(45%)were females (p=0.03) statistically significant. The HBA1c was raise in 72% patients of which52 cases had hypophosphatemia (p=0.05) statistically significant. Conclusion: One hundreddiabetic patients were studied and 67% shown significantly decreases serum phosphate level incontext to age and gender while raised HBA1c, shown inversely proportional relationship withHBA1c respectively.