Open AccessDiabetes screening and the distribution of blood glucose levels in rural areas of North India
Author(s) -
Tomi Thomas,
Shalini Prabhata,
Sameer Valsangkar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of family and community medicine/maǧalaẗ ṭib al-usraẗ wa al-muǧtamaʼ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-340X
pISSN - 1319-1683
DOI - 10.4103/2230-8229.163026
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , prediabetes , blood sugar , demography , fasting blood sugar , rural area , endocrinology , type 2 diabetes , pathology , sociology
Genetics and environment have both been implicated in the exponential rise in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus that affects 65.1 million people, and leads to a mortality of 1 million people every year in India. This study was devised to obtain the trends of the distribution of blood glucose, and sociodemographic characteristics in rural areas of a North Indian state.