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Citation

Ugoya SO, Agaba EI, Ladep NG, Puepet FH, Ogunniyi A. Hung. Med. J. 2008; 2(2): 215.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Akadémiai Kiadó)

DOI

10.1556/HMJ.2.2008.2.4

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Background: Cognitive dysfunction is a common source of morbidity and mortality, usually observed in late stages of diabetes complications. Dementia is one of the commonest and most disabling late life mental disorders. The fact that data are scanty in the tropic cannot be overemphasized. There is a need to describe the association of cognitive dysfunction among our diabetics and its attendant risks such as duration of DM, age of patient, presence of hypertension and glycaemic control.
Methods: a sample size of 180 patients was obtained with 120 diabetic subjects and 60 non-diabetics as controls. The mini-mental state examination (MMSE) was used to grade the severity of cognitive states.
Result: twenty-six (21.7%) of the diabetic subjects had cognitive dysfunction with a score of less than twenty-four based on the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) while 6 (10.0%) of the controls had dementia.
Conclusion: This study clearly shows that in a clinic setting, diabetes is associated with a greater trend toward impairments of cognitive function than in the non-diabetic population.

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