Assessment of Blood Sugar Levels and Expenditure Incurred by the Diabetic Subjects of Rajeev Nagar Area, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Preventive Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: India leads the world with largest number of diabetic subjects earning the dubious distinction of being termed the “diabetes capital of the world”. Due to rising prevalence across all countries and it has been granted the status of “public health priority in most of the nations. Objectives: To find out the glycemic status and also the expenditure spent by the diabetics. Material and Methods: The present study is conducted over 510 subjects, in Rajeev Nagar (Urban Slum), which is a field practice area of Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada. Results: In the present study, 510 subjects were analyzed. Among them, the majority (208) 40.8% accounted for the age group of 5564 years and least (11) 2.2% were in the age group of 3544 years. The overall mean age of the study subjects was 62.63. The mean HbA1C value for females was 8.5 and for males 8.6 and the overall mean HbA1C value in both sex were 8.5 and it ranges from 4.8 to12.5.The monthly mean direct expenditure was Rs.670, maximum expenditure was Rs.2450 and minimum expenditure was Rs.150. Conclusion: The expenditure incurred in the management of Diabetes depends on the duration of diabetes, the source of health care and the glycemic status and it does not depend on gender, education, and socioeconomic status and awareness levels. On the whole, the present study shows that there is still a lot of scopes to reduce the expenditure incurred in the management of diabetes.
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Panabaka Ramesh Babu
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- DOI 10.21088/ijpm.2321.5917.6118.6
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