Study on diabetes mellitus and the balance of electrolytes

Abstract EN

The study was designed to investigate the relationship between some of extracellular and intracellular electrolytes with type2 diabetes mellitus.

Sixty one patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus (26 males, and 35 females) aged between (40) to( 79) years with a mean age of (55.96 ± 10.72;55.68±9.79) were included in this study respectively.

All patients have a history of duration of disease and no one of them has another disease.

The control group is comprised of (61) healthy individuals (30 males and 31 females) aged between (40) to (79) years with a mean age of (55.5 ± 9.08; 55.16 ± 7.34) for male and female respectively.

The control subjects were selected from the hospitals of Babylon city.

They had no history of diabetes mellitus or any other disease.

The results of this study showed that serum sodium was significantly decreased (P<0.05)in patients(male and female)with diabetes type2 as compared to control (male and female)groups.

Serum potassium was significantly elevated (P<0.05) in patients (male and female) with diabetes type 2 as compared to control male group while the comparison to control female group was non-significant.

Serum calcium indicated reduction in male patients and elevation in female patients with diabetes type 2 and compared to control male and female groups respectively but was non-significant.