Prameha purvaroopa as diabetes risk predictor - trends from a retrospective cohort study of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients.

ABSTRACT:

Study background

Increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes has shifted the focus of world from its management to prevention. Life style modifications programs related to diabetes prevention are found to delay the progress of prediabetes into diabetes. Reaching out to community with diabetes prevention program however is still a challenge to meet.

Objective

Of the study: This study proposed to retrospectively screen the presence of prediabetes symptoms depicted in Ayurveda literature in a newly diagnosed diabetic population and to compare this prevalence with non-diabetic and healthy population. The idea is to put weightage upon prediabetes symptoms as a disease predictor if these are available early in the course of the disease.

Material and methods

A questionnaire bas

SUBMITTER: Rastogi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105213 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature