This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted over a period of one year among all the families registered in the field practice area of RHTC SRMS IMS at Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh including 263 persons aged 60 years or more. Rural areas were selected randomly and complete house to house survey and face-to-face interview were conducted. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in rural was found to be . Diabetes was found to have positive association with increasing age, better education, being businessman, daily consumption of oil, better socio-economic status and sedentary occupational physical activity. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in rural was found to be . Diabetes was found to have positive association with increasing age, better education, being businessman, daily consumption of oil, better socio-economic status and sedentary occupational physical activity. |
