Patrones de prescripción de medicamentos para la diabetes mellitus tipo 2 en cinco departamentos de Colombia, en 2014

Noël C. Barengo, Sandra Camacho, Pilar Andrea López, Paul Anthony Camacho, Ángel Alberto García, Jaime Alejandro Hincapié, Alexander Maceneth, Patricio López-Jaramillo

Producción científica: Artículos / NotasArtículo Científicorevisión exhaustiva

1 Cita (Scopus)

Resumen

Objective: to describe the patterns of medication prescriptions for diabetes mellitus type 2 (dm2) and the comorbidity of patients treated in five health care institutions in Colombia. Methodology: descriptive cross-sectional study carried out checking the medical records of 5098 patients with dm2 treated at the outpatient service centers in five Colombian cities between January 1 and December 31 of 2014. Each patient with dm2 had a record of at least two outpatient appointments registered during the time of this study. The information was collected through electronic surveys. National and international guidelines on diabetes treatment were used to categorize the medications. The spss® 21 software was used to analyze the data. Results: the most frequently prescribed medications were biguanides (59%) and sulfonylureas (28%). The prescription of inhibitors for Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 was 7% and the frequency of prescription of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (ar glp-1) was 2%. The medication with the highest frequency of prescription as monotherapy were biguanides (22%). The most frequent combination was biguanide and sulfonylureas (21%). The second most frequent combination was biguanide with insulin (10%), and other combinations. 27% of patients with dm2 did not receive any pharmacological treatment for diabetes. Regarding the medicines for comorbidity, 52% of patients use at least one type of antihypertensive drug, 39% use at least one type of hypolipidemic drug and 35% uses acetylsalicylic acid. Conclusions: biguanides were the most frequently prescribed medication, sulfonylureas came after. One in four patients did not have a record of medicine prescription. The prescription of acetylsalicylic acid to prevent cardiovascular risk was lower than expected.

Título traducido de la contribuciónPatterns of Medication Prescriptions for Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 in five Departments of Colombia in 2014
Idioma originalEspañol
Páginas (desde-hasta)58-65
Número de páginas8
PublicaciónRevista Facultad Nacional de Salud Publica
Volumen36
N.º2
DOI
EstadoPublicada - may. 2018
Publicado de forma externa

Palabras clave

  • Colombia
  • diabetes mellitus type 2
  • medicine prescription
  • primary health care

Huella

Profundice en los temas de investigación de 'Patrones de prescripción de medicamentos para la diabetes mellitus tipo 2 en cinco departamentos de Colombia, en 2014'. En conjunto forman una huella única.

Citar esto