Women in South Mumbai are more prone to diabetes compared to those propose to the suburbs, the data, the Fourth National Survey of Family H...
Women in South Mumbai are more prone to diabetes compared to those propose to the suburbs, the data, the Fourth National Survey of Family Health (NFHS). The results showed that 11.8% of women had in the city of sugar in the blood island - about 140 milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood (mg / dl) - compared to 6.4% of women living in the suburbs.
In addition, 3.9% of women were living in the city of the island had blood sugar levels over 160 mg / dl, against 3.5% in the suburbs. Recovered values, diabetes, but only the step of pre-diabetes.
Overall, 608 and 673 women in the group of 15 to 49 years old were interviewed are in South Mumbai and the suburbs. NHFS was conducted by the Institute based in Mumbai International of Population Science (IIPS) from April to September, 2015.
Dr. Sarang Pedgaonkar, Professor and Assistant NFHS IIPS coordinator, said: "This difference of differences in lifestyle factors such as physical activity and nutritional difference between the women of the city can be related by Island and the suburbs."
Pedgaonkar but he said that although the first results a higher prevalence of high blood sugar levels in women show in southern Mumbai, more analysis before conclusions is required.
The NFHS is carried out by the central government in all walks of life related to health issues and family to gather and analyze data, the well-being. The study began in 1992-1993 and will be carried out at regular intervals. Pedgaonkar said a panel of experts, the government decided that the reading of 140 mg / dl is "high blood sugar" and refers to 160 mg / dl as "very high". For clinical reasons, doctors blood sugar before meals than 140 mg / dl, and levels after meals than 200 mg / dL is considered diabetic.
Dr. Rajiv Kovil, a practice of diabetes in Andheri, said an explanation for the large difference in the incidence of high blood sugar could be that women living in the suburbs are more physically active. However, he said that business circles of women surveyed also be studied for better understanding.
"It was ten years ago, I got a few patients who switched from Chembur in Lokhandwala and we realized that we had high blood glucose levels. The lack of space in the city on the island one reason people have less to people from the suburbs compared, "he said. Meanwhile Chembur and Lokhandwala are in the suburbs, said Kovil patients who moved to Lokhandwala, may have fewer opportunities to train outdoors to make the sugar increase levels.
The doctors said, the growing trend of obesity one of the confounding factors in women, leading to the early onset of diabetes. Dr Shashank Joshi, endocrinologist with headquarters in the city, said: "It is a dual epidemics of obesity and hypertension in women Unfortunately, the sedentary lifestyle and junk food is plucked between men and women.".
The results of the survey, however, found no significant difference between the trends in obesity among women of the town on the island and in the suburbs. While 34% of women were found in South Mumbai to be obese - a BMI over 25 (body mass index, the one person who compares Height Weight to give a measure of obesity) -36% of women were in the suburbs obese.
