Objective: To know the cause of admissions of diabetic patients at an emergency room in eastern Valladolid in a year.
Methods: It is a retrospective and transversal study that analysed a number of the admission of diabetic patients at an emergency room because of a direct complication of diabetes mellitus or another different cause. We used t and chi 2 as statistic tests, considering 0.05 as significance.
Results: Up to 2,433 (2.4%) were diabetes mellitus emergencies. 17.1% because of a direct complication, most of them metabolic complications (24.6% hyperglycaemia).
Conclusion: We emphasize the high prevalence of direct complications as emergency admissions in our hospital.