Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Rural Tertary Care South Indian Hospital

Type 2 diabetes which affects millions of people, throughout the world is a widely prevalent chronic debilitating disease that causes short term and long term complications. India is becoming the high prevalence rate of diabetes. The present study was undertaken to know the prevalence and complications of type 2 diabetes. A prospective observational study was made. A total of 747 patients were found to be type2 diabetes. The prevalence of type2 diabetes was high in males 58.23% than females 41.76%. Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes was found to be 24.25%. Only type 2 diabetes was found to be 45.24%, diabetes with cardiovascular was found by 26.23% and diabetic retinopathy was found to be 5.75%.

Author(s):  Santhosh YL, Vasanth Kumar and Ramanth KV

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