By Anafulu, Ugo Chinyere
The study investigated the evidence of diabetes, its complications, risk factors and dietary management of 204 (54.9% males and 45.1% females) diabetic patients attending National Hospital, Abuja. Height and weight of patients were obtained, body mass index (BMI) of the patients were calculated and fasting blood glucose (FBG), systolic and diastolic pressure were obtained from patient’s folder. A 24-hour dietary recall was carried out on all the respondents. Three-day weighed food intake on 25 (10%) respondents was obtained to determine energy intake. The result showed that 23.04% of the patients were diabetic (D), 29.41% were diabetic hypertensive (D+HBP), 16.18% obese diabetic (D+OB) 9.31% diabetic, obese and hypertensive (D+OB+HBP) and 22.06% diabetic with other complications. The energy intakes when compared with prescribed energy levels for patients were all above 50% and when compared with the FAO/WHO requirement was about 50% on the average