Diabetes Mellitus type 2; assessment of body mass index [BMI]

ABSTRACT

To assess the body mass index in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 in a tertiary care hospital. Analytical [cross-sectional] study. The outpatient clinic at Shahina Jamil Trust Hospital Abbottabad from November 2006 to April 2007. One hundred patients seen in the outpatient clinic were enrolled in the study. All patients were 30 years of age or above, diagnosed as a case of diabetes mellitus were included. Patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 and pregnant diabetic women were excluded. Sixty-seven percent were females and thirty three percent were males. Mean age of the patients was 53.4 +/- 11.0 years [F 51.9 +/- 12.0, M 56.5 +/- 7.8] and mean duration of diabetes mellitus type 2 was 7.1 +/- 6.5 years [F 7.1 +/- 6.4, M 7.9 +/- 6.8], mean height of patients with DM type 2 was 1.5 +/- .09 m [F 1.5 +/- .08, M 1.6 +/- .08], mean weight was 71.4 +/- 14.3 kg [F 70.1 +/- 15.0, M 74.2 +/- 12.6], and mean BMI was 28.3 +/- 6.4 [F 28.7 +/- 6.9, M 27.5 +/- 5.2]. Among all patients, 34% [F 23, M 11] had normal weight, 28% [F 17, M 11] were overweight, 32% [F 23, M 9] were obese and 6% [F 4, M 2] had morbid obesity. There was strong association of obesity with type 2 diabetes mellitus with no significant difference of mean BMIs among male and female patients