A STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP OF ANTHROPOMETRIC INDICES WITH BLOOD PRESSURE AND BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL IN ADULT POPULATION AT PMCH, PATNA

Abstract

Diabetes is the 5 or 6 leading cause of death worldwide (as per International Diabetes Federation 2009). The crude prevalence of diabetes (type 1 and 2) in adults 20-79 years of age was estimated to be 6.6% (285 million) in 216 IDF member countries in 2010 (as per International Diabetes Federation 2009). By 2030, this gure is expected to rise to 7.8% (438 million), with the largest increase in regions where economies are developing further. They further emphasized that if the levels of obesity continue to increase, the prevalence of diabetes may be even greater than that reported in the IDF 2009 report. Hypertension is considered as the primary risk factor for stroke, ischaemic heart disease (Nakamura et al 2008) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality (Martiniuk et al 2007; He et al 2009). Recently, it was estimated that 7.6 million premature deaths per year may be attributed to high blood pressure (Lawes et al 2008), that is 13.5% of the total global deaths. About 26.4% or 972 million of the world adult population had hypertension in 2000 of which 333 million were in economically developed countries and 639 million in economically developing countries (Kaarney et al 2005), gures predicted to increase by 60% to 1.56 billion in 2025.