Abstract

Background: Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough,insulin or when the body cannot effectively use insulin and it is characterized by a state of chronic hyperglycemia, resulting,from various etiologies-environmental and genetic, acting jointly. To reduce the growing burden of diabetics, it is important,not only to address the diseases but also their key underlying risk factors.
Objective: To study the various risk factors and,correlate them to Type 2 diabetes mellitus in a rural population of Davanagere.
Materials and Methods: A hospital-based,cross-sectional study was carried out in a rural area, Davanagere. A pre-designed pre-tested questionnaire was used to,collect data. Data were entered into MS excel and analyzed using SPSS 16.0 software. Descriptive statistics was used to,assess the frequency distribution. Chi-square test was used.
Results: Of 315 study participants, 230 (73%) were male and,85 (27%) were female, 289 (74%) were literate, 52 (16.5%) were had positive family history of diabetes, and 81 (25.7%),had a habit of tobacco or alcohol or both. As per body mass index (BMI) for Asian population, in the present study, 30 (9.5%),were obese, according to waist circumference for the Indian population, 148 (47%) had abdominal obesity, 26 (8.3%) study,participants had random blood sugar ≥200.
Conclusions: Waist circumference measurement is a simple and effective,indicator of abdominal obesity; it measures abdominal obesity in those individuals which are healthy according to BMI.