Diabetes prevalence and its risk factors in rural area of Tamil Nadu.

Objective: To estimate the usefulness of the Indian diabetes risk score for detecting undiagnosed diabetes in the rural area of Tamil Nadu.

Materials And Methods: The present study was conducted in the field practice area of rural health centers (Chunampett and Annechikuppam, Tamil Nadu), covering a population of 35000 from February to March 2008 by using a predesigned and pretested protocol to find out the prevalence and the risk of diabetes mellitus in general population by using Indian diabetes risk score.

Results: 1936 respondents comprising 1167 (60.

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 study was to estimate the number of persons diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in Puducherry.