title: Microvascular and macrovascular complications of type 2 diabetic mellitus in Central, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
abstract: To determine the prevalence of macrovascular and microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its associated determinants.  Methods: We evaluated the online medical records of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who have been seen in chronic disease unit between April and June 2014. Seven hundred and forty-eight participants satisfied the inclusion criteria. Of these, 317 (42.4%) were males with a mean age of 57.9 years, 681 (64.3%) were obese with body mass index (BMI) of greater than 30, while only 9.6% had normal BMI (less than 25).  Results: Only 158 (21.1%) had controlled hemoglobin A1c level. Retinopathy prevalence was 14.8% and neuropathy was 5.6%. Macrovascular complications accounted for 12.1%. Patients' age and duration of diabetes were main predictors of developing complications. Patients with more than 20 years  history of diabetes have 30% more odds of developing the complications when compared to patients with less than 10 years of diabetes history. Each increment in age by one year increases the odds of developing microvascular complications by 4% and macro vascular complication by 2%.  Conclusion: Our results showed diabetic patients with poor glycemic control, and longer duration of diabetic history had higher prevalence of both macrovascular and microvascular.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail. aalabood@psmmc.med.sa.
authors.forename: Aboud F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Alaboud
authors.forename: Ayla M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tourkmani
authors.forename: Turki J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Alharbi
authors.forename: Aljoharah H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Alobikan
authors.forename: Osama
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Abdelhay
authors.forename: Saad M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Al Batal
authors.forename: Hesham I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Alkashan
authors.forename: Umar Y
authors.initials: UY
authors.lastname: Mohammed
mesh_terms: D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications*