Open AccessTHE THE NEGLECTED ASSOCIATION OF LUNGS AND GLYCEMIC CONTROL.
Author(s) -
Dipankar Das,
R.V. Sridhar,
Midun Chandar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of medical and biomedical studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-8698
pISSN - 2589-868X
DOI - 10.32553/ijmbs.v4i2.917
Subject(s) - glycemic , diabetes mellitus , medicine , population , intensive care medicine , lung , stage (stratigraphy) , pulmonary function testing , lung function , affect (linguistics) , environmental health , endocrinology , biology , psychology , paleontology , communication
The awareness of diabetes and its increasing complications remain hidden and often diagnosed stage at a later stage in India, especially among the rural population. Diabetes is known to affect multiple organs in the body but lung as a target organ has not been highlighted enough. Pulmonary Function Test is an important tool in the early diagnosis of lung involvement in diabetes, however its availability and utility among the mass population in India is not abundant.