DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i06.042

Pages: 2358-2360

Diabetes as a non communicable disease is significant public health problem the prevalence rate all the world over is raising. Unfortunately more than 50% of the diabetic subjects in India remain unaware of their diabetes status, which adds to the disease burden. This underscores the need for mass awareness and screening programmes to identify and overcome the burden due to diabetes in India. Therefore present study was carried out with an aim to assess the risk of diabetes among undiagnosed individuals using IDRS (Indian Diabetes Risk Score). Present study was a cross sectional study. Pre-tested semi structured questionnaire based on IDRS was used in this study. The study was conducted on 500 individuals residing in urban area of Jamnagar city. In the present study, it was found that out of total 500 study subjects, 334 (66.8%) were in moderate risk category, 114 (22.8%) were in high risk category and 52 (10.4%) were in low risk category. It may be concluded that it is essential to implement the simple IDRS tool in the community for mass screening so that proper intervention can be carried out earliest to reduce the burden of diabetes.