Prevalencia de la neunomía en pacientes diabéticos tipo 2 mayores de 65, Hospital General Guasmo Sur en el año 2018.

Abstract

Introduction: Pneumonia, has remained, in recent years, among the most frequent complications in clinical practice, associated with the aging of the population and the presence of comorbidities, this pathology is caused by different infectious agents, older adults can present occasionally the classic picture of this disease, but usually the onset is insidious, with a history of dyspnea, confusion and fever of several days of evolution. In the elderly, pneumonia presents a series of differences with respect to other groups of patients of other ages, and this is due to the existence of various factors that favor them, both intrinsic and extrinsic. Methodology: The study has a quantitative approach in which phenomena will be measured using statistics. It has a cross-sectional and nonexperimental methodological design with correlational scope since the variables in the study population will be compared; Chi-square and discriminant analysis will be used to see the degree of relationship that exists between the variables. Results: The age variable was compared with the microorganisms that appeared in the sputum tests; a p-value <0.05 was shown with Pearson's Chi-square, evidencing a significant difference between the population. Diabetic patients aged 65 to 75 years have a higher percentage and probability of suffering Klebsiella pneumoniae (43: 30.9%). The prevalence of patients admitted with diabetes in the 2018 period who had pneumonia with Klebsiella pneumoniae and Streptococcus pneumonia in this study is 71 cases per 100 people. Conclusions: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most frequent risk factors in pneumonia, this comorbidity occurred in 70% of the geriatric patients of our research, proving our hypothesis that they are the most prone to suffer from recurrent acute respiratory diseases.