Manifestaciones oftalmológicas más frecuentes en diabéticos tipo II mayores a 60 años en la Fundación Blanca's House Ecuador en el año 2017.

Abstract

Introduction: Diabetes Mellitus type II (DM type II) is a major public health problem, with high incidence and prevalence rates, which brings along a series of systemic complications and is considered one of the main causes of visual disability, especially in the elderly population. Objective: To determine the most frequent ophthalmological manifestations in type II diabetics over 60 years of age in the Blanca's House Ecuador Foundation in 2017. Methodology: A prevalence, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out; based on information obtained from pre-existing data from clinical histories provided by said foundation, from a random sample consisting of 109 type II diabetics over 60 who attended their ophthalmology consultations. Results: 90.8% of our sample population developed ophthalmological manifestations and 89.9% did not have an adequate ophthalmological control. Conclusions: A close link was found between the poor control of type II DM in patients over 60 years of age and the appearance of ophthalmological complications with different degrees of visual impairment as a consequence, with the influence of various factors such as age, sex, time of evolution of the disease, metabolic control, degree of physical activity and adherence to treatment and presence of controlled hypertension or not.