Open AccessPrevalence and risk factors of hypertension and diabetes in the Katkari tribe of coastal Maharashtra
Author(s) -
MG Deo,
PV Pawar,
SR Kanetkar,
Satish V. Kakade
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.194204
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , diabetes mellitus , body mass index , environmental health , epidemiological transition , malnutrition , obesity , tribe , epidemiology , gerontology , demography , population , endocrinology , sociology , anthropology
Urban and rural India are both going through health epidemiological transition and will soon face huge burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Information on the status of NCDs in tribals is limited. Although the prevalence of hypertension in scheduled tribes (STs) has been studied in several states by the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau, tribe-specific data are very scanty. The objective of this study was to generate data on the status of hypertension and diabetes, the two objectively measurable NCDs in Katkaris, the dominant ST in the Raigad district of coastal Maharashtra.