Abstract: Infections are more common in patients with diabetes mellitus. Increasing of infections in patients with diabetes mellitus is conditioned by an immunodepressive condition resulting from immune damage.
Objective: To give some information and correlation about diabetes mellitus and infection in diabetic patients.
Material: We have studied 30 patients with diabetes mellitus hospitalized at the service of Endocrinology in University Hospital Center, Tirane, Albania.
Method: We analyzed data collected from the above materials synthetically. Student’s t test and one-way Anova tests is used.
Results: Males were 17 patients. Study time was march-september 2015. Mean level of WBC in males resulted 13.12±4.456/mm³ compared to females 7.54±3.503/mm³ (p=0.001); mean level of hemoglobin in males was 10.88±2.205 mg/dL compared to females 12.38±1.758 mg/dL (p=0.047); mean level of urea in males was 52.41±25.162 mg/dL compared to females 33.85±16.072 mg/dL (p=0.028); mean level of creatinine in males was 1.18±0.393 mg/dL compared to females 0.92±16.072 mg/dL (p=0.048). Among the diagnosis taken in the study was noticed that mean age is 61.4+10.4 years (p=0.061), mean level of WBC is 10.7±4.9 (p=0.029), mean level of hemoglobin was 11.5±2.1 mg/dL (p=0.051), mean level of urea was 44.4±23.3 mg/dL (p=0.006), mean level of creatinine is 1.1±0.4 mg/dL (p=0.00).
Conclusions: Soft tissue infections are the most common complication in patients with diabetes mellitus. From the study it was noticed that among gender there are changes in leukocytes, hgb, urea and creatinine. Among the diagnosis taken in the study resulted changes in age, leukocytes, hgb, urea and creatinine.
Keywords: Infections, diabetes mellitus, leukocytes, hemoglobin.
Title: Infections in Immunocompromised Patients from Diabetes Mellitus
Author: Esi Duka, Edmond Puca, Najada Çomo, Pellumb Pipero, Arjan Harxhi, Ilir Akshija, Margarita Resuli, Dhimiter Kraja
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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