Nor Azlida Aleng

Exposure and Factors Influencing the Progression of Diabetic Nephropathy AmongstType II Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan

The case of diabetic nephropathy often arisesamong people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. The incident of diabetic nephropathy has increased dramatically in the last decade. Increasing case of diabetic nephropathy had worried to most of diabetic patient. A cross-sectional study was conducted andfocused on two areas:modeling the applied logistic regression and todetermine the factors that influence diabetic nephropathy mellitus using structural equation modelling in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.Three hundred eighty three diabetic patients were selected from Seremban. Of those who had diabetes, 172 (44.9%) patients were female and 211 (55.1%) were male.Finding from the previous research, the earliest age tostart diabetes mellitus is at 20 years old. Factors found to be significantly associated with diabetes mellitus on multivariate analysis werebeta blockers (OR= 3.942, 95% CI= 0.422, 36.854), serum creatinine (OR= 1.057, 95% CI=1.023, 1.093), age (OR= 0.917, 95% CI=0.821, 0.97), blood glucose (OR= 1.564, 95% CI= 1.091, 2.241), gender (OR= 20.396, 95% CI= 0.963, 431.892). In this paper, we found that age, being male,taking Beta-blockers having blood glucose level and serum creatininereported as influencing factors of type II diabetes mellitus.