The Habitual Additional Sodium Intake among Hypertensive Patients Visiting a Tertiary Health-care Center, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Background: Hypertension prevalence is related to dietary sodium chloride intake. People are consuming much more sodium than is physiologically necessary. The consumption of processed food in urban India has led to a prevalence of 24%-30% of hypertension.

Hepatobiliary dysfunction in Type-2 diabetes mellitus.

Objective: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and gallstones are frequently present in diabetics, but its exact prevalence is not well studied in India. We have done a prevalence study of hepatobiliary involvement in Type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and also studied the other risk factors of NAFLD.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred diabetics and 200 controls underwent anthropometric measurements, abdominal ultrasonography, (USG) and biochemical tests at a tertiary care hospital.