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Farhan Zeb¹, Saqib Pervez², Musa Kaleemullah¹, Abdul Wahab¹, Bushra Khan¹ and Noman Salih¹

ABSTRACT

Objective: To evaluate the frequency of Obesity in Type II Diabetes Mellitus population

Study Design: Descriptive study

Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Department of Medicine at Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) Peshawar from July 2022 to November 2022.

Materials and Methods: One Hundred Ninety study samples were collected from the different wards of HMC including medicine and endocrinology. After the recruitment of subjects according to the inclusion criteria, subjects underwent a detailed proforma based interview. Participants waist circumference (WC) was checked keeping ≥102 cm in male and ≥88 cm in females as the cut off for obesity in patients that were already diagnosed as type II diabetics. The data was then organised and analysed in SPSS software version. 26.

Results: Out of the 190 subjects included in the study, 80 subjects were males while 110 were females. Subjects had a mean age of 38.3 ± 5.1 years. Mean WC was 95.14±9.25cm in males and 94.92±11.12cm in females. Abdominal obesity was positive in 20% of males and 25% of females with diabetes.

Conclusion: Our study concludes that there abdominal obesity is fairly common in type II diabetic patients and shows a positive correlation with the disease.

Key Words: Diabetes; Obesity; Dyslipidaemias; Waist Circumference

Citation of article: Zeb F, Pervez S, Kaleemullah M, Wahab A, Khan B, Salih N. Frequency of Obesity in Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients. Med Forum 2023;34(4):70-72.