JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v5i1.2414 jpsim.v5i1.2414 Original Research Frequency of Hypomagnesemia in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Saba Farhana dr.farhanasaba@gmail.com * Najam Abdullah Najam-un-Nasir National Hospital and Medical Center, Lahore *Correspondence: Farhana Saba (dr.farhanasaba@gmail.com) 28 02 2024 2024 5 1 422 426 12 10 2023 06 12 2023 Copyright © 2024 The Author(s) 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

To determine the frequency of hypomagnesemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus in tertiary care hospital.

 Methodology

This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at National hospital and medical center Lahore, Pakistan from January 2022 to December 2022. In this study a total of three hundred and fifty admitted and OPD patients with type 2 DM for at least one year irrespective of gender and in the age range of 18 to 75 years were included. Their serum magnesium level was recorded. Hypomagnesemia was labeled< 1.8 mg/dL.

 Results

In this study 350 cases of DM were selected. Out of these 181 (51.71%) were males and 169 (48.29%) were females. The mean age of the subjects was 56.25±10.73 years and mean duration of DM was 7.20±5.35 years. HTN was seen in 99 (28.29%) of cases. Mean serum magnesium level was 1.83±0.29 mg/dl. Hypomagnesemia was observed in 103 (29.43%) of cases. Hypomagnesemia was seen in 51 (28.17%) males as compared to 52 (30.76%) females with p value of 0.63. Hypomagnesemia was seen in 55 (30.55%) cases with duration of DM up to 5 years as compared to 48 (28.23%) cases with duration more than this with p value= 0.64. Hypomagnesemia was observed in 28 (30.43%) cases with good glycemic control and 75(29.06%) cases with poor control with p= 0.79.

 Conclusion

Hypomagnesemia is not uncommon and is seen in almost one third of the cases with DM and it has no significant association with any of the confounding variables examined within this study.

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