Objective  To examine the treatment and control of diabetes and their influencing factors among community diabetic patients in an urban district of Beijing city and to provide evidences for developing diabetes control and prevention measures.

  Methods  Questionnaire interviews, physical examinations and laboratory tests were conducted first among 7 177 permanent community residents aged 18 – 79 years recruited with stratified multistage cluster random sampling and then the data on 854 diabetic patients identified from the residents were analyzed to explore diabetes treatment and control and their influencing factors in the patients in Dongcheng district of Beijing during June – October 2016.

  Results  Of all the diabetes patients, 62.30% (532) reported anti-diabetic medication and 31.85% (272) had their blood glucose under control. Uncondi-tional multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that the patients aged ≥ 40 years, with the education of high school and above, and suffering from hypertension were more likely to have anti-diabetic medication, while the patients drinking alcohol were less likely to have the medication; the analysis also demonstrated that the patients aged ≥ 60 years, with the education of high school and above, and having anti-diabetic medication were more likely to have their blood glucose under control but those with central obesity were less likely to have their blood glucose under control.

  Conclusion  Among community diabetic patients in Dongcheng district of Beijing city, the anti-diabetic medication rate was high but the blood glucose control rate was low; while, the control rate was relatively high for the patients with anti-diabetic medication; main impact factors for anti-diabetic medication and blood glucose control were age, education, alcohol drinking, and whether suffering from hypertension or central obesity.