DIABETES MELLITUS
HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA IN PATIENTS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29309/TPMJ/2016.23.08.1663Keywords:
Phosphate, Hypophosphatemia, Phosphorous, Diabetes mellitus, HBA1CAbstract
Objectives: 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.
