TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS: ITS PERSPECTIVE AND CHALLENGES AMONG THE YOUTHS
Devangi Hazarika Singha1,*, Sarat Ch. Kakaty2 and Monimala Neog3
1 Research Scholar, Department of Statistics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam.
2 Professor, Department of Statistics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam.
3Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam.
*Corresponding author: Devangi Hazarika Singha, Research Scholar, Department of Statistics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam, India.
Email id: gargi.singha17@gmail.com
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3003-5151
Abstract
Diabetes is an iceberg disease. Chronic hyperglycemia, from whatever cause, leads to a number of complications – cardiovascular, renal, neurological, ocular and others such as intercurrent infections. The number of people falling prey to this deadly disease is increasing at an alarming rate. Particularly, the increasing number of children and adolescents with Type 2 diabetes, which is generally an adult onset form of the disease, is raising a problem of worry in the society. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes among the youths of Assam based on data collected on 280 diabetic patients whose age at onset of the disease was below 25 years. The study suggests that the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes can be prevented by maintaining normal body weight, adopting healthy nutritional habits like a high intake of dietary fibre and avoiding sweet foods, smoking and diabetogenic drugs like oral contraceptives.
Keywords: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 diabetes, Youth.