Background: Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces¹. There are mainly two types of diabetes; Type 1 and Type 2. Type 2 is the most common form and comprises of 90% of people with diabetes around the world. Early identification of the high risk individuals would help in taking appropriate intervention in the form of dietary changes and increasing physical activity, thus helping to prevent, or at least delay, the onset of diabetes.

Objective: To assess the risk of type 2 diabetes in the adult population using Indian Diabetes Risk Score in the field practice area of Urban Health Training Centre, Jaipur.

Material and Methods: A total of 400 individuals participated in the study and various parameters including physical activities, family history of diabetes were assessed using a questionnaire previously developed by Mohan V et al. The study tool has got 4 important factors like age, abdominal obesity, physical activity and family history of diabetes.

Results: Out of 400 patients; majority 195(48.75%) of the patients were from 35- 49 years of age; among that most (54.67%) of the patients were at moderate risk of diabetes. In this study 214(53.5%) of the patients belongs to moderate risk of diabetes; followed by high risk of diabetes 150 (37.5%) and the least was low risk of diabetes 36(9%). In high risk of diabetes most 38.6% were family history of diabetes of single parents, 53.3% were waist circumference >90cm in female and >100cm in male and 34.6% were doing mild exercise in day to day life.

Conclusion: Screening and early identification of high risk individuals would help to take appropriate intervention like lifestyle modification. It would also help in early diagnosis and treatment to prevent or to delay the onset of diabetes mellitus and its complications.

Keywords: Abdominal obesity, Diabetes, Family history of diabetes, Indian Diabetes Risk Score, Physical activity.

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Dilip Raj

Department of Community Medicine, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India