Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and impaired fasting glucose, and their associated lifestyle factors among teachers in the CLUSTer cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Teachers are responsible for educating future generations and therefore play an important role in a country's education system. Teachers constitute about 2.6% of all employees in Malaysia, making it one of the largest workforces in the country. While health and well-being are crucial to ensuring teachers' work performance, reports on non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among Malaysian teachers are scarce. Hence, this study focused on the prevalence of T2DM, undiagnosed diabetes mellitus (DM), impaired fasting glucose (IFG), and underlying lifestyle factors associated with these outcomes among Malaysian teachers.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study from the CLUSTer cohort. There were 14144 teachers from the Peninsular Malaysia incl

SUBMITTER: Ng YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10809994 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature