Type 2 Diabetes at a Military Health Centre in Brazil: Clinical and Pharmacotherapeutic Profile

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the clinical and pharmacothera-peutic profile of people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) at a military health center in Brazil. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The sample of 170 medical records was selected by means of probabilistic sampling. The data collected were sociodemographic, clinical and laboratory data related to diabetes, as well as prescribed medications. Results: Most of the subjects were male (57.6%), elderly (64.7%) and inactive military (55.2%). Adequate gly - cemic control was observed in 75.9% of the subjects, which was positively associated with multimorbidity and mono-therapeutic treatment (p < 0.05). Negative associations were observed in those subjects attend - ing medical appointments less frequently and using prescribed insulin (p < 0.05). Medications prescribed for treatment of T2D were the following: metformin (90.6%), sulfonylureas (22.9%), dipeptidyl peptidase in - hibitors-4 (16.5%) and sodium-glucose 2 co-transporter inhibitors (10.0%), in which 50.6% were monotherapy. Multimorbidity was 97.6%, in which systemic arte - rial hypertension (71.8%), lipid disorders (65.9%) and cardiovascular diseases (26.5%) were the main clinical conditions.