بررسي شيوع ميكرو و ماكرو آلبومينوري در بيماران ديابتي مراجعه كننده به مركز ديابت شهر يزد سال 1380

Diabetic mellitus is becoming a major medical problem in developing countries and Yazd province too. The key point two preventing complications of this disease is early identification of patients who are at high risk for developing its complications . Screening for micro albuminuria is a well established way for this purpose. This screening program was performed on 593 diabetic patients attending the Yazd diabetes out patient clinic . This measurement was performed using klinitek 100 . Which is a self - read BAYER manufactured machine for detecting Albuminuria . Mean age and disease duration of patients were 50±10 years and 10±6 years respectively. 24 patients were IDDM, 560 were NIDDM and 31% had hypertension. Prevalence of micro albuminuria was 26% and macroalbuminuria was 12% .There was no difference between the two sexes or type of diabetes.Mean duration for normo ; micro and macro albuminuria were 8-10 & 15 years respectively (p<0.05 ). Hypertension and duration of disease were two factore which corelated with albuminuria. Our results were similar to other reports from Korea & European countries.