NURSING SCIENCE STUDY PROGRAM

MOHAMMAD NATSIR UNIVERSITY BUKITTINGGI

Thesis, 2022

DEBBY ERISKA

Relationship between Diabetes Mellitus and Sarcopenia in the Elderly in the Work Area
of the Mandiangin Public Health Center, Bukittinggi City in 2022

ABSTRACT

Aging or getting old is a process of slowly disappearing the ability of tissues to repair
themselves or replace and maintain their normal functions so that they cannot survive
infection and repair the damage they have suffered (Santoso, et al, 2009 (Asnaniar &
Agustini, 2018). Diabetes Mellitus is a genetically related disease and is also influenced by
age. With age, the body's cells become resistant to insulin, thereby reducing the ability of the
elderly to metabolize glucose. In addition, the release of insulin from the beta cells of the
pancreas decreases and slows down, the result of a combination of these processes resulting
in the elderly easy to experience diabetes mellitus (Alvita, 2016) This type of research is a
quantitative study. The place of this research was carried out at the Bukittinggi City Health
Center. This sampling technique was non-probability sampling through purposive sampling
as many as 93 people. Based on table 5.7 it can be seen that 46 elderly people m 39 people
had diabetes mellitus and sarcopenia (78.0%), the elderly with diabetes mellitus and not
sarcopenia were 7 people (15.2%). While 47 other elderly people did not have diabetes
mellitus and had sarcopenia as many as 11 people (23.4%), the elderly who did not have
diabetes mellitus and did not sarcopenia were 36 people (76.6%). The results of the analysis
of the relationship between sarcopenia and diabetes mellitus in the elderly were obtained. and
p-value 0.000 (sign, 0.05), meaning that Ha is accepted, that is, there is a relationship
between sarcopenia and diabetes mellitus in the elderly. The elderly in the working area of
the Mandiangin Health Center, Bukittinggi City, less than half in the diabetes mellitus
category as many as 46 respondents in the non-diabetes mellitus category as many as 47
respondents, more than half in the sarcopenia category as many as 50 respondents, in the non-
sarcopenia category as many as 43 respondents and there is a relationship There is a
significant relationship between diabetes mellitus and the incidence of sarcopenia in the
working area of the Mandiangin Public Health Center, Bukittinggi city as indicated by a P
value of 0.000, which is 0.05.

Keywords: Elderly, Diabetes Mellitus, Sarcopenia