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Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of Puducherry, India: Time for preventive action

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies in India have shown that the prevalence of diabetes in the population is at least twice the number of persons diagnosed with diabetes residing in the given area. Similarly, community-based prevalence figures are unavailable in Puducherry,. AIMS: The aim of this st...

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Autores principales: Purty, Anil J., Vedapriya, D. R., Bazroy, Joy, Gupta, Sanjay, Cherian, Johnson, Vishwanathan, Mohan
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062557
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-3930.50708
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author Purty, Anil J.
Vedapriya, D. R.
Bazroy, Joy
Gupta, Sanjay
Cherian, Johnson
Vishwanathan, Mohan
author_facet Purty, Anil J.
Vedapriya, D. R.
Bazroy, Joy
Gupta, Sanjay
Cherian, Johnson
Vishwanathan, Mohan
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description BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies in India have shown that the prevalence of diabetes in the population is at least twice the number of persons diagnosed with diabetes residing in the given area. Similarly, community-based prevalence figures are unavailable in Puducherry,. AIMS: The aim of this study was to estimate the number of persons diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in Puducherry. SETTING AND DESIGN: This study was conducted in the service area of the Urban Health Centre (UHC), Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Puducherry with retrospective data from family records. METHODS: The diagnosis of diabetes was retrospectively documented by reviewing all family folders of 2667 families (Population 11,835) for the period of 1/1/2003 to 31/12/2006. The data was verified by home visits from January until March, 2007. The case definition used, was a resident diagnosed with diabetes by a medical doctor and who was on antidiabetes treatment for at least the past six months. RESULTS: We found 643 individuals who had been diagnosed with diabetes. The prevalence of known diabetes was estimated to be 5.6% (5.31% in males and 6.1% in females). The age-sex specific prevalence was estimated using the 2001 Census data. There are about 48,876 known diabetics living in Puducherry. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Community-based health surveillance data comprise a useful tool to measure the prevalence of diagnosed cases of diabetes mellitus within the Indian context; 2) Diabetes mellitus is an important public health priority requiring urgent preventive action as there are about 97,752 persons in Puducherry who have either been diagnosed with diabetes or remain undiagnosed for the disease.
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spelling pubmed-28023652010-01-08 Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of Puducherry, India: Time for preventive action Purty, Anil J. Vedapriya, D. R. Bazroy, Joy Gupta, Sanjay Cherian, Johnson Vishwanathan, Mohan Int J Diabetes Dev Ctries Original Article BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies in India have shown that the prevalence of diabetes in the population is at least twice the number of persons diagnosed with diabetes residing in the given area. Similarly, community-based prevalence figures are unavailable in Puducherry,. AIMS: The aim of this study was to estimate the number of persons diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in Puducherry. SETTING AND DESIGN: This study was conducted in the service area of the Urban Health Centre (UHC), Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Puducherry with retrospective data from family records. METHODS: The diagnosis of diabetes was retrospectively documented by reviewing all family folders of 2667 families (Population 11,835) for the period of 1/1/2003 to 31/12/2006. The data was verified by home visits from January until March, 2007. The case definition used, was a resident diagnosed with diabetes by a medical doctor and who was on antidiabetes treatment for at least the past six months. RESULTS: We found 643 individuals who had been diagnosed with diabetes. The prevalence of known diabetes was estimated to be 5.6% (5.31% in males and 6.1% in females). The age-sex specific prevalence was estimated using the 2001 Census data. There are about 48,876 known diabetics living in Puducherry. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Community-based health surveillance data comprise a useful tool to measure the prevalence of diagnosed cases of diabetes mellitus within the Indian context; 2) Diabetes mellitus is an important public health priority requiring urgent preventive action as there are about 97,752 persons in Puducherry who have either been diagnosed with diabetes or remain undiagnosed for the disease. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2802365/ /pubmed/20062557 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-3930.50708 Text en © International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Purty, Anil J.
Vedapriya, D. R.
Bazroy, Joy
Gupta, Sanjay
Cherian, Johnson
Vishwanathan, Mohan
Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of Puducherry, India: Time for preventive action
title Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of Puducherry, India: Time for preventive action
title_full Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of Puducherry, India: Time for preventive action
title_fullStr Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of Puducherry, India: Time for preventive action
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of Puducherry, India: Time for preventive action
title_short Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of Puducherry, India: Time for preventive action
title_sort prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in an urban area of puducherry, india: time for preventive action
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062557
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-3930.50708
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