Prevalence of type two diabetes mellitus and its relation to obesity and socioeconomic state

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Background : type two diabetes mellitus is a common disease with high consequen morbidity and mortality. Objective : to have an estimate of the distribution of the disease among adult people and to study its relation to obesity and socioeconomic state. Setting : Al- Hussein General Hospital Patients and Methods : A population based, random sample study, taking adult companions of patients attending the out-patient clinic in AL- Hussein General Hospital from November 2005 to October 2007. Patients who were already diabetics on treatment were included others were investigated for diagnosis of diabetes according to WHO definition. Results : the total number of patients studied were 1545 adult, males were 844 (54.6 %), and females were 701 (45.4 %).

Their ages ranged from 25-85 years , the total number of diabetics were 162 (82 females and 80males).

The prevalence adjusted for age and sex was 10.5 %.

the prevalence of overweight diabetics was (37.7 %) and for obese diabetics (40.7 %).

The majority of diabetics (74.7 %) were of low socioeconomic status. Conclusion : type two diabetes mellitus showed prevalence of (10.5 %) among adult population.

It was also concluded that majority of them(78.4 %) are either o