Prevalence of Prediabetes and its risk factors in an urban community of East Sikkim

Dr.Binu Upreti; Dr. Forhad A Zaman; Dr. Sushrut Varun Satpathy

Volume : IX, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Prevalence of Prediabetes and its risk factors in an urban community of East Sikkim

Dr. Binu Upreti, Dr. Forhad A Zaman, Dr. Sushrut Varun Satpathy

Abstract :

Backgroud: Diabetes mellitus(DM) has been recognised as a public health problem and it has taken an epidemic form with 73 million diabetics in India in 2017[1]. Diagnosing prediabetes , precursor of diabetes, will reduce the burden and hence the complication. Knowledge of the prevalence of prediabetes will ing about awareness and thus cost– effective stratetegy can be applied to delay the progression of prediabetes to the stage of frank diabetes. Objective: To find the prevalence of Prediabetes and determine the factors associated with it amongst the Sikkimese population . Materials and methods : A cross sectional descriptive study, with total enumeration of population aged 20 years and above having domicile of Sikkim(874),was conducted in the Urban field practice area of SMIMS ,Gangtok from August 2013 –August 2014. Clinicosocial data was collected , anthropometric measurement and blood pressure taken and FBG was measured after 8 hours of fasting using blood glucometer and then analysis was done using SPSS Software. Result: On the basis of study, the prevalence of prediabetes was found to be 24.37% . Age, family history, sedentary lifestyle, BMI ,WHR and hypertension were significantly associated with prediabetes. There was no significant association with alcohol, education or employment status. Conclusions: Compå with the national figure the burden of diabetes and prediabetes in Sikkim is quite high and thus there is an urgent need for intervention at the precursor stage.