PREVALENCE OF DIABETIC RISK FACTORS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS
Abstract
Background: India prosperity associated with rise in altered lifestyle and dietary habits, so also the metabolic diseases. This prompted us to search risk factors in medical students.
Material and Method: 450 medical students were studied.
Results: 421 students (182 male and 239 female) had completed the study. Mean age of male (M) and female (F) students was 19 ± 1.128. Diabetes mellitus (DM) was comparatively common in relatives of female students. 32.78% students had obese relatives, especially paternal diabetic, and both parental and maternal diabetic relatives, Hypertension (HTN) [M=13.74% & F= 18.41%] and coronary artery disease (CAD). Underweight students were 48 [M= 19 & F= 29] and overweight 191 [M= 91 & F= 100]. 31.61% male students had waist ≥ 90 cm and 32.42% female ≥ 80 cm, and Waist – Hip Ratio (WHR) ≥0.90 in 38.06% male and ≥ 0.80 in 36.53% female. Low birthweight students were 26 (M= 7 & F= 19) and high birthweight 9 (M=5 & F=4). Systolic HTN was present in 31 (M=26 & F=5) and diastolic HTN in 32 (M=18 & F=14). One male was diabetic and 3 female had Glucose Intolerance and 4 had PCOD.
Conclusion: Students, particularly female and “normal-weight metabolically obese”, were at risk of developing DM, obesity, HTN and CAD. Parental DM determined high birth weight. Most of female students were underweight, suggesting DM in lean subjects may shift from male to female. “Obesity paradox” present in students because of “metabolically unhealthy normal-weight”.
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