Investigation and analysis on incidence rate of clinical diabetic nephropathy patients among more than 60 years old people in our region

Objective Through investigating and analyzing on the morbidity and distribution features of clinical diabetic nephropathy patients, to make relevant public health departments for reference, strengthen follow-up jobs in those people, raising the awareness in DM patients and promoting normative and rational treatment, so as to reduce the incidence rate of complications. Methods We reviewed the numbers of DM patients and clinical diabetic nephropathy patients, the proportion of male and female patients, the proportion of patients in urban and rural regions among the people more than 60 years old who participates in New Rural Cooperative Medical Service' in our region from 2009 to 2012. Results The analysis found that the incidence rate of clinical diabetic nephropathy raised to 46.6% in 2012 from 28.1% in 2009. In 2012,the proportion of patients were 34.8% in urban regions and 65.2% in rural regions, 59.6% in males and 40.4% in females. That showed the characteristic of male patients were more than female ones a