[Administration of cardiac agents, antihypertensive agents, beta receptor blockers, coronary therapeutic agents and diuretics to patients with newly detected type II diabetes].

In 210 newly detected untreated diabetics of type IIA or B from 4 districts of the county of Neubrandenburg who were admitted to hospital in 1982 their behaviour in taking medicaments was analysed. Cardiac remedies strictly speaking and in the wider sense were classified into the drug groups cardiac remedies (glycosides), antihypertensive agents, beta-receptor blockers, other coronary therapeutic agents and diuretics. At the same time the prevalence of the cardiovascular risk signs overweight (75.7%), hypertension (69.1%), hypertriglyceridaemia (54.8%), hypercholesterolaemia (43.3%), hyperuricaemia (21.0%) and inhalation of cigarette smoke (greater than or equal to 5 cigarettes a day: 12.9%) was established. The proportion of obese persons diminished with growing age, also the percentage of smokers was in the same proportion. In the inverse ratio to this the proportion of diabetics with hyperuricaemia increased according to age. 62.9% of the newly detected diabetics were treated with cardiac glycosides and 49.1% with antihypertensive agents. Only every 4th to 5th patient did not receive a medicament from the drug groups investigated. With the exception of the cardiac remedies in all other groups of substances the proportion of patients treated increased with the enlarging number of cardiovascular risk signs.