Adherence to medication, glycaemic control and hospital attendance in young adults with type 2 diabetes
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Manish Khanolkar; Shalini Kunasegaran; Junaid Beig; Tim Cundy
- Source
- Internal Medicine Journal. 48:728-731
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Attendance
Medication adherence
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Type 2 diabetes
medicine.disease
Hospital records
Poor adherence
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Diabetes clinic
Internal medicine
Internal Medicine
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1444-0903
Type 2 diabetes is becoming common among people in their 20s and 30s. Glycaemic control is suboptimal in this group and is associated with poor medication adherence. We studied medication adherence over a 24-month period in all diabetes clinic registrants (n = 266) between the ages of 18 and 39 years. We reviewed their glycaemic control using mean HbA1c over the study period and examined hospital records to determine the number of hospital attendances during this time. We found that less than half the group (47%) had good adherence (>90%) and 21% of the group had very poor adherence (