Diabetes prevalence and its risk factors in rural area of Tamil Nadu.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the usefulness of the Indian diabetes risk score for detecting undiagnosed diabetes in the rural area of Tamil Nadu.

Materials and methods

The present study was conducted in the field practice area of rural health centers (Chunampett and Annechikuppam, Tamil Nadu), covering a population of 35000 from February to March 2008 by using a predesigned and pretested protocol to find out the prevalence and the risk of diabetes mellitus in general population by using Indian diabetes risk score.

Results

1936 respondents comprising 1167 (60.27%) females and 769 (39.73%) males were studied. Majority 1203 (62.50%) were Hindus. 1220 (63.%) had studied up to higher secondary. 1200 (62%) belonged to lower and lower-middle socio-economic class. A large number of

SUBMITTER: Gupta SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2963877 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature