Detection of patients with risk of developing diabetis in community pharmacies in Pontevedra

<div style="text-align: justify;">OBJECTIVE&nbsp;To evaluate the use of the findrisk&nbsp;questionnaire in community pharmacies&nbsp;for detecting people at risk of&nbsp;suffering from type II diabetes in the&nbsp;province of Pontevedra.&nbsp;METHODOLOGY&nbsp;A descriptive transversal study. Piloting&nbsp;of a project with a similar design&nbsp;that will be carried out nationally. Area and population of the study:&nbsp;people aged 18 and over who are not&nbsp;diagnosed with diabetes and/or hypoglycemia&nbsp;treatment, users of 13 pharmacies&nbsp;in Pontevedra during January&nbsp;2013, selected at random. Method: the subjects included in the&nbsp;study were administered the findrisk&nbsp;questionnaire by students doing practical work experience under the tutelage&nbsp;of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the&nbsp;University of Santiago. The subjects&nbsp;were classified according to low, light,&nbsp;moderate, high and very high risk and&nbsp;each of them were given an educational&nbsp;talk. Those who got a score of&nbsp;≥12 points were recommended to visit&nbsp;their doctor.&nbsp;RESULTS AND DISCUSSION&nbsp;381 subjects filled in the questionnaire&nbsp;correctly. Men 142 (37.3%), women&nbsp;239 (62.7%). The average score for the&nbsp;FINDRISC test was lower in women (7.8&nbsp;± 4.6) than in men (8.7 ± 4.5), however&nbsp;the difference was not statistically&nbsp;signifi cant (Student’s t-distribution =&nbsp;1.7355, p= 0.0835). A higher percentage&nbsp;of men with a medium to high risk&nbsp;was also found (27.5% vs. 23.0%).&nbsp;CONCLUSION&nbsp;Figures concerning the risk of developing&nbsp;diabetes have been found&nbsp;10 years before those found in other&nbsp;areas. The application of the Findrisk&nbsp;questionnaire poses no problems when&nbsp;administered to users in community&nbsp;pharmacies. This supports it as being&nbsp;an ideal health centre for carrying out&nbsp;the screening of people with undiagnosed&nbsp;diabetes, obtaining a high level&nbsp;of efficacy.</div>