To correlate the nutrient intake among the male and female Diabetic patients

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder that prevents the body to utilize glucose completely or partially. People are greater risk of diabetes due to improper dietary practice, unhealthy life style, lack of physical exercise. The present study was conducted to assess the health status among males and females Diabetic patients. Multistage stratified random sampling technique was used for selecting 100 samples in both male and females and an interviewed schedule was developed to collect information regarding socioeconomic profile, dietary pattern etc. Dietary intake between males and females diabetic were highly significant but age, BMI, etc. between males and females diabetic were insignificant. Consumption of high fat and carbohydrate diet was revealed as the major contributing cause of disease in both males and females.