Abstract 164: Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Diabetes Mellitus at tertiary care hospital in north India; A cross-sectional study

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder that is characterized by hyperglycemia which affects almost all systems of body. Incidence of cognitive impairment (CI) is higher in patients with diabetes mellitus compared to general population. There are many tests available for screening of CI. Most of these tests are time consuming, but minicog is simple screening test and takes only three minutes. We conducted this study to know the prevalence of CI by using minicog test. Materials and Methods: We conducted cross-sectional study using a convenient sample of 100 diabetic patients enrolled in OPD. Socio-demographic diabetes-related variables including biochemical analysis were collected. Cognitive Impairment was assessed by using Mini-Cog Test. Results: Out of 100 patients 66% were women and 34% were men and mean age was 49.46 ± 10.36. Mean BMI of respected cases was 27.32 ± 4.53 and mean HbA1C% was 9.39 ± 2.52. The overall prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in cross-sectionalstudy is 27%. More number (n = 22) of women had cognitive impairment as compared to men (n = 5). Conclusion: Cognitive impairment is not uncommon in Diabetes Mellitus. Mini-Cog test is a brief, simple and less time-consuming screening tool and is immensely helpful for screening of Cognitive Impairment especially in OPD setting.