1Associate Professor & Head of the Department, Department of Forensic Medicine, North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling
2PGT 1st Year, Department of Forensic Medicine, North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling
3PGT 2nd Year, Department of Forensic Medicine, North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling
4Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling
Online published on 5 January, 2015.
There are several screening test for recognizing high risk groups for Type-II diabetes mellitus, which are mostly invasive and costly. But from many days research on fingerprint pattern are going on to prove it relationship with type-II diabetes mellitus. Our study aiming to find out the association of fingerprint pattern with type-II diabetes mellitus. Fingerprint pattern of 100 diagnosed type II diabetes mellitus patients (72 male and 28 female) were studied and compared with 100 normal individual (76 male and 24 female) not suffering from diabetes mellitus. Cases and controls were taken from medicine OPD of North Bengal Medical College in the period of 1st November 2013 to 12th December 2013.
There is significant difference between fingerprint pattern of diabetics and non diabetics. In diabetic patient there is significant increase in whorl pattern in both in diabetic male and female than the controls. Whereas significant reduction in loop pattern is seen in diabetics than controls, in both sexes.
Fingerprint, Diabetes Mellitus, Loop, Whorl
