Glycemic and lipids control in patients with diabetes and cardiovascular or renal diseases across all the government health sectors in the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Unlabelled: The guidelines suggest setting the glycemic and lipid targets according to the stage of the disease and other co -existing complications in the patients with diabetes.

Aims: We aimed to evaluate the HbA1c and lipids level in patients with high risk diabetes from 2012-2016, attending different level of care in Dubai health authority.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of the electronic medical records of all patients who attended the Dubai Health authority between 2012-2016. All patients with an ICD code of any type of diabetes in addition to cardiovascular or renal diseases were. Patients were categorized based on their HbA1c into control of<7.5, 7.5 - 8, and >8%. While lipids were categorized as f LDL < 70 mg/dl, and the Non-HDL <100 mg/dl.

Results: Out of total number of 26647 patients diagnosed with diabetes, 2015 patients did fit the criteria of this study. The desired mean of HbA1c of <7.5% achieved by 21.76% and 28.94% in T1DM and T2DM, respectively. The LDL of < 70 mg/dl was achieved by 27.8% of the patients.

Conclusion: In patients with diabetes and multiple complications, the glycemic and lipids control is suboptimal. However, the pattern showed numerical improvement over the years.