Abstract

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) presents the most frequent metabolic disorder and most common endocrine disease. Chronic complication of diabetes is caused by bad regulation of disease for a longer time, duration of the disease and other risk factors (such as atherosclerosis). Aim: The aim of this research was to establish frequency of visiting diabetic and non diabetic patients with cardiovascular diseases in the emergency room. Subjects and methods: We were observing diabetic and non diabetic patients in the period of two years with focus on their reasons for coming in to the emergency room. Patients were separated in groups by ECG results. Results: There is a significant difference in reasons for visiting the emergency room between diabetic and non diabetic patients with cardiovascular disease. Conclusion: With this research we showed that diabetic patients with cardiovascular diseases are more often visiting the emergency room than non diabetic patients.

Key words: diabetic patients, emergency room, cardiovascular diseases, visit frequency.