Screening Results for Type 2 Diabetes in the Udmurt Republic

Abstract

The study was undertaken to reveal the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and impaired glycose tolerance among the Udmurt Republic ’s employed population that has risk factors of diabetes mellitus. A total of 7137 employed individuals were examined in the organized working collective bodies in the Udmurt Republic by the routine program. Among the examinees, there were 238 patients first diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes mellitus (3.33% of all the examinees) and 184 patients with impaired glucose tolerance (2.58% of all the examinees). Thus, the screening survey conducted among the employed of the Udmurt Republic indicated the high clinical efficiency of early detection of disease, which made it possible to timely define and implement a package of prophylactic and therapeutic measures for diabetes mellitus complications. This determines the economic expediency of performing a screening survey for diabetes mellitus, which permits the saving of material resources to be spent for treating the late diagnosed complications of diabetes.