Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 numa população endêmica para doença de chagas

Abstract

Chagas disease (CD) caused by Trypanosoma cruzi agent whose main vector is the Triatoma infestans is a disorder of great severity in chronic form. Endemic in the interior of Sergipe, currently the rate of infection through transfusion and vector forms by T. infestans are eradicated, thereby eliminating acute and juveniles cases, changing the pattern of the infected for older people and subject to a number of other comorbidities. This study aims to identify type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases that predispose to cardiovascular risk in a population of the interior of Sergipe and correlate them with the literature. As a result there was a significant presence of predisposing laboratory abnormalities cardiovascular risk although the number of patients with Chagas disease found was insufficient to correlation.