A report on diabetes screening among adults

A screening programme was conducted from 5–7^th April 2016 on the occasion of World Health day theme on “Halt the Rise Beat diabetes”, at Manipal Teaching Hospital. The objectives of the screening programme were to assess the prevalence rate, risk factors for developing diabetes and to give awareness on diabetes. The total participants were 325 adults age group of 20 and above years. The screening programme was conducted with prior permission from the dean Manipal College of Medical Sciences. The result of the screening programme showed that 56% of the participants had no history of both HTN and diabetes, 30.8% had family history of diabetes, and 10.2% already had HTN. Out of the total participants, 47.4% of the participants had overweight, 32% had normal, 19.1% had obese, and 1.5% had below normal level. Regarding GRBS, 77.8% of the participants had normal, 11.4% had pre-diabetes, 5.5% had the chance to have diabetes and 5.2% had below normal range.