World Congress on
Advanced Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods

Biography:

I am a professional nutritionist having a solid background of human nutrition as my higher education. With more than 7 years of experience in different nutrition specific projects at different positions (District Project Manager, District Team Leader, District Nutrition Coordinator, Nutrition Expert, District Nutrition Training Coordinator, Nutritionist) I have also been faculty member of Mardan Institute of Sciences for almost 4 years, Mardan (KPK, Pakistan) where I attended nutrition classes to students of MPH (Master in Public Health). Apart from all the above mentioned experiences and expertise I am having passion for treatment-via-food. The above said research came after a long struggle while growing up in such a community, which never had a chance to review their life risk as most of the community, considered it as a general health problem. The results of the said research are almost 70% in agreement to other researchers, who studied the same disease with different risk factors.

 

Abstract:

A study was carried out, in order to assess the risk factors associated with type-II diabetes mellitus in males (Age≥40 years) in district Mardan. Four hundred cases and controls (Each 200) were selected from 10 union councils (7 rural and 3 urban) by a systematic sampling method. In order to select cases and controls, all were interviewed for medical history, on fulfillment of which, cases and controls were separately included for study. In anthropometry, weight, and height were taken for Body Mass Index while waist and hip circumference were taken for waist-to-hip ratio. Fasting blood sugar of cases and controls was determined with the glucometer. Cases and controls were interviewed with Food frequency questionnaire and other questionnaires in order to assess the demographic and socioeconomic characters of the families. The results disclosed that most of the cases had family history of diabetes. In addition to that, cases were also found to have higher (p<0.05) average weight, height and body mass index, and fasting blood sugar level to those of controls. These results also revealed that there was a distinguished (p<0.05) association between dairy and fruit with the health status and about 1/3rd of both cases and controls had satisfactory consumption of dairy and fruit only. A significant link was found among family size, exercise, type of exercise, duration of exercise, watching television, duration of watching television and the status of disease. The study revealed that a combination of anthropometric, dietary and demographic variables were associated with type-II diabetes mellitus in male adult population of district Mardan.