Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the important causes of morbidity and mortality. With a rise in
non communicable diseases in India, diabetes has become a modern epidemic showing a rising trend in
West Bengal also. A large number of diabetes patients come to the diabetes clinic of our tertiary care hospital in North Bengal
Medical College and Hospital, Darjeeling, West Bengal. The large proportion of patients presenting with this condition
prompted us to study the Sociodemographic and Anthropometric Prole of such patients.
Methods: This was a descriptive hospital based cross sectional study involving a total of 344 diabetic patients enrolled in the
diabetes clinic of a tertiary care teaching hospital from December 2019 to February 2020. A self-administered questionnaire
was used to collect data and was analyzed in Microsoft excel sheet and using SPSS 20.0 software.
Results: Among the 344 study participants, we found that 220 (63.95%) were males and 124 (36.05%) were females. Diabetes
was more common among those aged 51-60 years 108 (31.40%). Family history was present among 188 (54.65%) of the diabetic
patients. Almost 160 (46.51%) patients have diabetes 1.1 – 5 years. Hypertension was present among 216 (62.79%) patients.
Almost 218 (63.37%) of the patients were overweight and 84 (24.42%) were obese.
Conclusions: The diabetic patients presenting to this tertiary care hospital belong lower socioeconomic strata and having
limited education in their age group. There is high proportion of obesity and hypertension among them.
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