Dietary intake and risk of Diabetes: a Study in Bengalee young adult females

The rate of diabetes is increasing alarmingly across the globe irrespective of age, sex and like and India is not an exception. Recently, dietary intake has received great attention as a modifiable risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In this backdrop an attempt has been made to find out the relationship of dietary intake pattern with various indicators of T2DM. The risk of developing T2DM of 36 consented Bengalee young adult individuals aged between 18-24y, residing in and around Kolkata, were assessed anthropometrically and also by using Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS). Dietary intake was assessed using a validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and comparison was made in dietary intake between the risk groups. Corelation of dietary intake and risk of developing T2DM was checked. P<0.05 was considered as significant. 75% of the participants was obese in terms of BMI, 78% had central obesity in-terms of WC and more than 80% of the volunteers had moderate-high risk of T2DM when assessed using IDRS. It has been observed in the present study that consumption of milk and milk products, animal foods, roots and tubers, and fruits was low among high-risk groups. It has also been noticed that intake of energy dense fast food was higher among individual in high-risk group.