WOMEN AT RISK OF CONTRACTING DIABETES: A STUDY AMONGST PUNJABI POPULATION

Abstract

Diabetes can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, gender and lifestyle. Epidemiological and biochemical study has been undertaken on 1000 subjects; newly detected and total diabetic subjects are more abundant in females than in their counterparts. The newly detected cases in males are 3.2% whereas in females it is 8.3%. However, known diabetic cases do not reflect any significant (p>0.05) difference as in males it is 3.9% in comparison to females 3.6%. Most of the women are less educated or housewives and are generally ignorant about this disease, which reflect the cause of remaining, undiagnosed in them. The present research work reveals the level of obesity in women to the tune of 30.8% in Punjabi female subjects. This study opens up a new area of research to detect diabetes mellitus at the beginning for safeguarding the public health.