Zafar Jamal, Bhatti Fiaz, Akhtar Nasim, Rasheed Uzma, Bashir Rizwan, Humayun Saima, Waheed Ayesha, Younus Fardah, Nazar Madeeha
Department of General Medicine, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2011 Jan;61(1):40-7.
To estimate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (diagnosed and undiagnosed), impaired fasting glucose and possible risk factors for diabetes mellitus among Pakistani population.
This cross sectional study was performed in Rawalpindi which is one of the cities in Northern Punjab of Pakistan in July 2008. An area was selected in Rawalpindi city, with mixed population representative of almost all provinces with different socioeconomic groups. Three hundred and thirteen houses were selected through systematic random sampling technique and fasting blood glucose was obtained and subjects were labeled to have diabetes according to WHO criteria of diagnosing diabetes mellitus. The statistical analysis was performed by using Stata version 10.
There were 1091 respondents who were selected after cleaning the data, among them 293 were males and 798 were females. Of the total 15.41% of the males and 12.31% of females were found to have diabetes mellitus. Thus making a total prevalence of 13.14%. Impaired fasting glucose (IFG) was found in 5.14% males and 5.78% females making a total prevalence of 5.61%. Over all (DM & IFG) was found to be 20.55% in males and 18.09% in females. The main risk factors identified were obesity, family history, hypertension and increasing age.
There is an increased prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in Pakistan and main risk factors identified were obesity, overweight, family history of diabetes mellitus, and hypertension.
评估巴基斯坦人群中糖尿病（已诊断和未诊断）、空腹血糖受损情况以及糖尿病的可能危险因素。
这项横断面研究于2008年7月在巴基斯坦旁遮普省北部城市之一的拉瓦尔品第进行。在拉瓦尔品第市选择了一个区域，该区域人口混杂，代表了几乎所有省份不同社会经济群体。通过系统随机抽样技术选取了313户家庭，采集空腹血糖，并根据世界卫生组织糖尿病诊断标准对受试者进行糖尿病标注。使用Stata 10版本进行统计分析。
在清理数据后选取了1091名受访者，其中男性293名，女性798名。在所有受访者中，发现15.41%的男性和12.31%的女性患有糖尿病。因此，总体患病率为13.14%。空腹血糖受损（IFG）在男性中占5.14%，女性中占5.78%，总体患病率为5.61%。总体而言（糖尿病和空腹血糖受损），男性为20.55%，女性为18.09%。确定的主要危险因素为肥胖、家族史、高血压和年龄增长。
巴基斯坦2型糖尿病患病率有所上升，确定的主要危险因素为肥胖、超重、糖尿病家族史和高血压。
