A Prevalence Survey of Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Among Patients of Physicians in the Philippines Volume 2 - Issue 4

Evangeline P Costelo¹, Gerry H Tan²*, Lisa Marie Saldanha³ and Karen Wai³

• ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Cebu Doctors University Hospital, Cebu City, Philippines
• ²Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Cebu Doctors University Hospital, Cebu City Philippines
• ³Integrated Site Services, Quintiles East Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore

Received: January 21, 2020   Published: January 31, 2020

Corresponding author: Gerry H Tan, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Cebu Doctors University College of Medicine, CDUH, Cebu City Philippines

DOI: 10.32474/ADO.2020.02.000145

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Abstract

Objective: The primary objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of pediatric type 2 diabetes mellitus among patients of Filipino physicians.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey conducted from January to March 2014 among physician-members of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists-Philippine Chapter, Diabetes Philippines, Philippine Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Philippine Society of Pediatric Metabolism & Endocrinology.

Results: The prevalence of pediatric type 2 diabetes mellitus among patients of respondents was 0.091% with all patients aged 10 to 18 years old. More than half were symptomatic and most of them were managed by adult endocrinologists and adult diabetologists. 73% of the patients used metformin as their initial drug of choice.

Conclusion: There was a low prevalence of pediatric type 2 diabetes mellitus among patients of Filipino physicians.

Keywords: Prevalence; Pediatric type 2 diabetes

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