Study on prevalence of diabetes and the influencing factors among rural residents in Fengdu County / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the prevalence of diabetes and its influencing factors among rural residents in Fengdu coun-ty of Chongqing and to provide the suggestion for diabetes prevention and control.Methods Rural residents aged above 18 years old were sampled by stratified clustered random sampling.The data was entered by software Epi data3.02 and analyzed by SPSS 16.0.The rate was compared by Chi-square test.The influencing factors of diabetes was identified by multivariate logistic regres-sion.Results A total of 623 rural residents was investigated.The average age was (51.3±1.4)years old.The rate of smoking at present was 20.2% and the rate of smoking at present among male rural residents was 53.0%.The rate of passive smoking was 38.2%.The rate of drinking alcohol in the past 12 months was 22.8%.And its rate of male residents was 41.7%.The awareness rate of height,body weight,waist circumference,blood pressure and blood glucose was 9.5%,13.6%,1.9%,50.1% and 12.4%respectively.The crude and adjusted prevalence of obesity,hypertension and diabetes was 11.4% and 8.3%,52.5% and 28.4%, 12.0% and 9.3%.The result of multivariate logistic regression indicated that whether parents had diabetes(OR=0.20,95%CI0. 04-0.94)and whether participants was diagnosed to be hypertension (OR=2.31,95%CI1.19-4.49)was the independent fac-tor of diabetes.Conclusion The prevalence of diabetes among rural residents in Fengdu county of Chongqing was high.The risk factors such as smoking,alcohol use and unbalance diet was common.It should be strengthened to conduct the comprehensive ine-trevention for diabetes in rural area.