Akbar Yousfani, Iqbal Ahmed Memon, Tariq Zaffar Shaikh, Zaheer Ahmed, Hamid Nawaz Ali Memon, Syed Zulfiquar Ali Shah.
Diabetes mellitus; hypophosphatemia in patients.
Professional Med J Jan ;23(08):918-24.

To determine the frequency of hypophosphatemia in patients with diabetes mellitus. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Period: Six months. Setting: Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad. Patients and methods: All the patients of ≥35 years of age, either gender with known cases of diabetes mellitus type 2 for one year duration were recruited, enrolled and evaluate for serum phosphate level. The data was analyzed in SPSS 16 and the frequency and percentage was calculated. Results: During six months study period, total one hundred patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were studied for serum phosphate level. The mean age ±SD for overall population was 53.85±7.63 whereas it was 54.53±6.87 and 55.93±6.94 in male and female populations respectively while the mean ±SD for serum phosphate in male and female population was 1.52±0.74 and 1.90±0.93 respectively. The hypophosphatemia was observed in 67% patients of which 37(55%) were males and 30(45%) were females (p=0.03) statistically significant. The HBA1c was raise in 72% patients of which 52 cases had hypophosphatemia (p=0.05) statistically significant. Conclusion: One hundred diabetic patients were studied and 67% shown significantly decreases serum phosphate level in context to age and gender while raised HBA1c, shown inversely proportional relationship with HBA1c respectively.

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