Volume : 6, Issue : 7, July - 2017

CORRELATION OF HbA1c AND BODY MASS INDEX IN TYPE-2 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

Dr. Gian Chand, Dr. Pritam Singh Sandhu, Dr. Amandeep Singh Sidhu

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">INTRODUCTION:</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> Man may be the captain of his fate, but he is also the victim of his blood sugar. A recent estimate suggested that diabetes was the fifth leading cause of death worldwide and was responsible for almost 4.6 million deaths annually.<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> The cardiovascular diseases accounted for an estimated 1.4 million deaths in 2004 and it is likely to be 2.1 million in 2021. </span>. It has been estimated that 75% of the deaths in diabetic patients may be attributed to coronary artery disease. HbA1C and body mass index (BMI)</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> is a significant predictor for type 2 DM. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Our study mainly aims to find the correlation of HbA1C and BMI in type 2 DM patients with and without ischemic heart disease.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> MATERIAL AND METHOD: A case-control study was done on 100 type2 DM patients attending Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar, Punjab, India and divided into 2 groups each consist of 50 patients based on the presence or absence of ischemic heart disease. RESULT:</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> BMI (p=.002) and HbA1C (p=.001) was significantly high in Type 2 DM patients with ischemic heart disease as compared to non-ischemic heart disease. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">CONCLUSION</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">: From the study it was concluded that body mass index and HbA1C was significantly high in Type 2 DM patients with ischemic heart disease as compared to non-ischemic heart disease.&nbsp; Both BMI and HbA1C was important predictor for the development of ischemic heart disease in type 2 DM patients.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>