EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM ON PRACTICES REGARDING LIFE STYLE MODIFICATION AMONG DIABETES MELLITUS

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus, or just diabetes, is a gathering of diseases described by high blood glucose levels that outcome from surrenders in the body's capacity to deliver or potentially use insulin. It is a condition essentially characterized by the degree of hyperglycaemia bringing about risk of microvascular harm (retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy). It is related with decreased future, critical grimness because of explicit diabetes related microvascular complications, expanded risk of macrovascular complications (ischaemic coronary illness, stroke and fringe vascular sickness), and reduced personal satisfaction Several pathogenetic processes are engaged with the advancement of diabetes. As the diabetes is a slow progressive disease which causes target organ damage if not control. Study shows that controlled diabetics have also risk of target organ damage. Managing a diabetic patient needs to be combination of diet, discipline and drugs. Only drugs is given by the physician but the other two control parameter like diet and discipline is done by the patient himself. Life style modification can bring these two factors under control.