title: [Causes of diabetic patients' indifference towards treatment, diet and monitoring and possible factors associated with such disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Analyze the causes of detachment to diet and treatment of patients with diabetes and factors associated with disease such as family history of diabetes and hypertension, in patients from one municipality of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and surrounding areas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive study of variables such as age, sex, schooling level, occupation, family history of diabetes and hypertension, causes of detachment to diet and treatment; analytic for groups in terms of the risk of diabetes according to socio demographic and family history.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 156 patients included main causes of detachment or abandonment of the indicated treatment and/or were the oblivion and insistence on restricted food intake. Patients with a family history of hypertension in both parents had 5.8 times the risk of Diabetes Mellitus, compared to those without this history (p<0.01). Those patients with a maternal history of diabetes had 4.76 times the risk of suffering it too, compared to those with only paternal history (p<0.001). For patients with a history of obesity, they had 2.4 times higher risk of developing diabetes than those who had not (p<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Main causes, reported by patients, for detachment to treatment and diet were the oblivion and the insistence on restricted food intake, and the degree of association of Diabetes Mellitus with family history of this disease and hypertension is 2.4 to 5.8 times, with p<0.05.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio Clínico De La Cruz.
authors.forename: María G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: De La Cruz-Maldonado
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México, lfragoso@uaslp.mx.
authors.forename: Juan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Vargas-Morales
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México, lfragoso@uaslp.mx.
authors.forename: Erika S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Ledezma-Tristán
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México, lfragoso@uaslp.mx.
authors.forename: Mariana C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Holguín-Carrillo
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México, lfragoso@uaslp.mx.
authors.forename: Alan Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Martínez-Castellanos
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México, lfragoso@uaslp.mx.
authors.forename: Lilia E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Fragoso-Morales
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy*; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult