Introduction:

The physiological changes to which older adults are exposed; are many times negative factors in their quality of life, especially in those who are in geriatric residences. Glycemia and glycosylated hemoglobin are useful as metabolic control parameters.

Objective:

To relate the basal levels of Fructosamine and Glucose in institutionalized older adults in geriatric residences in the municipality of Tiquipaya, September 2019.

Methodology:

Non-experimental, observational, prospective, cross-sectional study, with a quantitative positivist analysis approach, with a universe of 97 adults over 65 years of age, with a sample of 79 that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, with a maximum acceptable error of 4.77%.

Results:

71% (n=56) of the patients were female. The elderly dominated as an age group. It was evidenced that there is not a good agreement between basal levels of Glycemia and Fructosamine, through the statistical calculation of the Kappa index which was 0.023;Wilcoxon test 0.081; Pearson correlation test r= 0.281. The basal levels of Fructosamine have a high sensitivity and specificity of 82.14% (L.I. 62.42% - L.S. 93.23%) and 56.92% (L.I. 47.95% - L.S. 65.48%), respectively.

Conclusions:

There is no relationship between basal levels of Glucose and Fructosamine since they

are parameters of metabolic evaluation in different time and one does not replace the other, therefore, the determination of Fructosamine should be implemented in addition to Glucose to monitor adult patients in the medium term.