Prevalence of Diabetes & Hypertension among respondents in Tertiary Care centre in Maharashtra India.

Sanjay. V. Wagh; Santoshi. S. Wagh

Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

Prevalence of Diabetes & Hypertension among respondents in Tertiary Care centre in Maharashtra India.

Sanjay. V. Wagh, Santoshi. S. Wagh

Abstract :

Background: As Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one of the most challenging public health problems in 21st century. It currently affects over 366 million people worldwide and this figure is likely to double by 2030. It is important to know about the awareness level of a dis¬ease condition in a population, which plays a vital role in future development, early detection and prevention of disease5. Hypertension is becoming an important public health problem worldwide. A recent report on the global burden of hypertension indicates that nearly 1 billion adults (more than a quarter of the world’s population) had hypertension in 2000, and this is predicted to increase to 1.56 billion by 20256. Objective: to study the prevalence of Diabetes and hypertension in tertiary care hospital. Method: The present cross sectional study was carried out General OPD, (Clinic) under the Community Medicine Department Government Medical College Akola during Feuary 2019 to July 2019 2018 over a period of 6 months. All the respondent who were given consent were included in the study. Result: A total of 329 study participants were enrolled for the study. Among them 66% were male. 14% were dietetic and ––– hypertensive. Family history of diabetes were 21 % participants where as 20% were hypertensive. Conclusion: Effective health education is needed to avoid complication of diabetes and hypertension. Majority of hypertensive subjects still remain undetected so camp based and house to house survey is needed for control and early detection of diseases.