Early detection of Diabetes Mellitus in transition countries – Kosovo

By, Dr. Fatbardh Ramadani

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes has an insidious onset with a long latent period of dysglycemia. The incidence of diabetes mellitus today is epidemic. 90-95% of patients are patients with type 2 diabetes. The disease develops slowly, and has a long asymptomatic phase. Clinics are opened for 5-10 years. A patient with diabetes, due to complications of the disease, dies prematurely from his peers without diabetes. Evidence suggests that early detection of diabetes with appropriate screening methods, especially for people at high risk for diabetes, will help prevent or delay vascular complications and thereby reduce the clinical, social, and economic burden of the disease. Ideal screening models have not yet been found for early detection of the disease, for the detection of the stage of increased fasting glucose and the phase of impaired glucose tolerance. The final answers to the question have not yet been obtained: who will perform the screening, where will it be performed and how? How to identify risk groups? How to conduct screening in transitional family medicine? There is also evidence to suggest that intervention in the prediabetic phase is superior to the diagnosis of diabetes. The family doctors played a key role in the early detection of the disease.

How to cite: Ramadani, F. (2020). Early detection of diabetes mellitus in transition countries – Kosovo. Medicus, 4(2), 20–25.

https://doi.org/10.58944/hfto2058