El incumplimiento en el tratamiento de la diabetes mellitus tipo 2 en España

Therapeutic noncompliance is considered one of the main causes of the lack of control of diabetes mellitus (DM). In Spain, the oral antidiabetic (OAD) treatment noncompliance has been analyzed in several short-term studies, having been between 45% and 51.5%, while noncompliance with insulin was analyzed in a single study, where there has been a noncompliance of 25.2%. Internationally, the magnitude of noncompliance in DM with OAD is from 6.7 to 55%. Noncompliance was associated with poor control of blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin, increased health care costs, hospitalization, morbidity and mortality.