DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i06.030

Pages: 2181-2188

The number of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is increasing throughout the world and the prevalence in the population is known from various studies. However the prevalence of DM in families or houses is to estimate in different parts of India. The objective was to estimate the prevalence of DM in families and population in the district of Ramanagara, Southern Karnataka. This is a community based, cross sectional, descriptive and analytical study conducted in the year 2016 by multistage random sampling. Only self-reported DM was included for estimation. Pre tested semi open ended questionnaire was used by interviewer to collect information from 1300 houses at their doorstep by direct interview. There were 4838 population in 1300 houses with male and female ratio of 1:1.2. The mean age of the population was 54.8±13.5 years. There were 291 DM subjects in 278 houses accounting to 1.04 ±0.2 DM per family. One in every fifth house has one DM subject. The overall prevalence of DM was 6% in general population and 8.5% in the population of more than 20 years of age. The prevalence was 13%, 10.3%, 9.4% and 5.4% among illiterates, agriculture related workers, non-agricultural workers and home makers. The prevalence rate was 2 per 1000 person years in the population aged 21 years and above. It was high in males than female subjects. The prevalence rate of DM is showing the trend of increase with the age groups and family size. Illiterates, advanced age and agriculture related activities were high in determining the presence of DM. Periodic assessment of prevalence of DM is required in the families along with intensified awareness about the DM in the rural community.