Abstract:
Management in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is aimed
diabetic control required antidiabetic drugs (OAD) and a good knowledge of OAD. The
aim of this study was to know data about the profile of used antidiabetic drugs and
knowledge in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus followed in department of
endocrinology Arifin Achmad General Hospital Pekanbaru. The type of research was
descriptive. The samples are 96 people included all patients with type 2 DM according to
inclusion criteria. The identity patients and patients knowledge were determined using
questionnaire, used of antidiabetics drugs and diabetic control were detemined using
medical record. The characteristics of patients with type 2 DM were most at group of age
50-59 years (45,8%), female sex (58,3%), duration of DM 1-5 years (52,1%), complication
of diabetic neuropathy (25%) and frequency of the Doctor once a month (64,6%). The used
OAD predominant is oral antidiabetic drugs (83%) are combinations sulfonylureas and
biguanid (73,7%), combinations oral antidiabetic drugs with insulin (14%) are
combinations biguanid with long acting insulin (69,2%) and intensive insulin (3%) are
long acting insulin with rapid acting insulin (66,6%). Diabetic control of patients with
type 2 DM are fasting blood glucose, post prandial 2 hours blood glucose, total
cholesterol, LDL and HDL was bad (68%, 74%, 46,9%, 61,5% and 70,8%). Triglycerides
and blood pressure was moderate (53,1% dan 9,6%). IMT was satisfactory (45,8%).
Patient of knowledge was satisfactory categories. This research showed that used of
antidiabetic drugs and patients knowledge was not satisfactory of diabetic control.
