Prevalence of obesity, prediabetes, diabetes mellitus, prehypertension and hypertension among health checkup beneficiaries in Erode district, Tamilnadu
Journal Title: Journal of the Indian Medical Association - Year 2018, Vol 116, Issue 5
Abstract
The study was conducted to find out the prevalence of obesity, prediabetes (Impaired fasting glucose-IFG), diabetes mellitus (DM), prehypertension (PreHTN) and hypertension(HTN) among health checkup beneficiaries who attended the health checkup unit of a rural based Medical College Hospital in western part of Tamilnadu state, India. The data on socio demographic characteristics, anthropometric profile, fasting blood sugar and blood pressure was collected from 1273 beneficiaries. The prevalence of newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus and hypertension were found out after exclusion of self reported cases of diabetes mellitus status (132) and hypertension status (141). A two-tailed test with P<0.05 was used to determine statistical significance. The overall prevalence of overweight and obesity of BMI>23kg/m2, prediabetes, diabetes mellitus, prehypertension, hypertension were 54.8%, 16.4%, 5.1%, 41.8%, 25.6% respectively. Multiple regression analysis showed that body mass index (BMI) correlated with age, sex, education, residence and known status of hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Prevalence of prediabetes, diabetes mellitus, prehypertension and hypertension were increasing as age interval was increasing. The higher prevalence of obesity, prediabetes, diabetes mellitus, pre hypertension and hypertension in this population draws attention of the health care providers to give importance for health promotion services apart from treatment services. This type of health checkup units may be established in various health care facilities for providing health education on lifestyle and behavioural changes, nutritional interventions, early diagnoses and treatment.
Authors and Affiliations
VM Somasundaram, R Subburam, A Celestine Raj Manohar, M Sankarapandian, N Kandasamy
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