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Research Article | DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/2641-8975/027
Professor (Retired) of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
*Corresponding Author: K.C.Bhuyan, Professor (Retired) of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Citation: K.C.Bhuyan, (2022). Identification of Risk Factors for Diabetes Disability among Bangladeshi Adults. J. Diabetes and Islet Biology, 5(1); DOI:10.31579/2641-8975/027
Copyright: © 2022 K.C.Bhuyan, This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received: 07 October 2021 | Accepted: 30 December 2021 | Published: 07 January 2022
Keywords: diabetes; disability, risk ratio; discriminant analysis, socioeconomic variable; discriminant function score; correlation coefficient of variable with discriminant function score
The paper was to throw some light on the risk factors for diabetes disability among Bangladeshi adults of 18 years and above residing in both urban and rural areas. In investigating the adults, it was decided to cover 50.1% males and 49.9% females to maintain the national level of sex ratio in the sample. The respondents were interviewed when they were visiting some diagnostic centres in urban and semi-urban areas. The percentage of diabetic respondents included in the sample was 67% and 25.5% of them were suffering for 10 years and above, 6.4% were disable against 4.8% total disable respondents in the sample, and obese adults were 30.2%. Diabetic disable adults in the sample were 4.3%. The most responsible variable for diabetes disability was obesity followed by longer duration of diabetes, sedentary activity, smoking habit, being housewife, being married, etc. These variables were identified on the basis of risk ratio and correlation coefficients of variables and discriminant function scores. Beside these variables, rural people, Muslims, adults of ages 40 – 50 years, illiterate people had more risk of facing the problem of diabetes disability.
Physical disability for males and females indicates increased risk of not being able to do usual daily task; like normal walking, normal working, and maintaining physical balance without any support. Obesity and diabetes may increase the risk of disability because of complications arises in mobility conditions, in hearing capacity and in visual impairment , including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and peripheral vascular disease and peripheral neuropathy [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]. In another study it was reported that the risk of disability might be increased 67% due to diabetes [5]. It was well documented fact that neuropathy is a common physical disorder, especially among elderly diabetic patients [1, 6]. The diabetic disable patients is expected to be increased by 2025 in developed countries as older people will comprise two-thirds of the diabetic patients in those countries [ 7, 8 ]. The prevalence of diabetes in adults is predicted to rise to 642 million in 2040 [9]. Currently the figure is 422 million worldwide and they are mostly from low-and middle income countries [10]. It was reported that disability prevailed among 90% of the diabetic patients in Bangladesh [11]. The rate of prevalence of the problem was 4.3% in 2006 in India compared to 1 to 2 per cent in western world [12]. Due to the prevalence of disability the chance of sleep apnea, lower limb amputation, morbidity is increased and it creates a great economic burden [12 – 19]. The problem is predominant among females, older people and diabetic patients suffering for longer duration [20, 21]. As disability increases with the increase in prevalence of diabetes, some influencing factors of diabetes viz. old age, female, illiteracy, physical inactivity, lifestyle, sedentary activity, food habit, family history etc. May be the causes of disability [5, 22 – 26] Keeping this health problem of adults in mind the objective of this paper was determined to identify the socioeconomic variables responsible for simultaneous prevalence of diabetes disability among Bangladeshi adults.
The data for this paper were recorded on investigation by some nurses and medical assistants working in some purposively pre-selected diagnostic centres located in urban and semi-urban areas of Bangladesh. The investigating units were 995 adults of age 18 years and above by quota sampling plan to cover males and females in the ratio 50.1: 49.9 as this ratio is prevailed in the national level of population of Bangladesh [27]. Out of 995 respondents 498 were males and 497 were females and they were the residents of both urban and rural localities. As the adults were investigated from diagnostic centre, most (67%) of them were found diabetic patients. The data were recorded during the session 2018-19.
The information of different socioeconomic variables of each selected respondent were recorded through a pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire which contains different questions related to residence, religion, gender, marital status, age, education, occupation, family income, family expenditure. Beside these personal data, other information were on life-style, and prevalence of any of the non-communicable diseases, duration of diabetes, and the stages of treatment of the disease including its cost. Some of the variables were qualitative and some were quantitative in nature, but all the variables were noted in nominal scale for ease of analysis. The data of weight ( in kg ) divided by height ( in metre2) was used to measure the value of body mass index (BMI) to identify obese adults( if BMI ≥ 27.5; underweight ,if BMI< 18>
In the sample there were 43 (4.3%) diabetic-disable adults and the remaining 952 adults were free of these two simultaneous health problems. Total respondents were classified by the prevalence of health problems and prevalence of diabetes and the classified results
Were presented in Table 1. Total diabetic adults were 667 (67%) and 6.4% of them were disable also. Prevalence of diabetes and prevalence of health problem were significantly associated [=48.844, p –value=0.000].The rural respondents were 53.4% and 4.9% of them were diabetic disable [Table 2]. For them the risk of this health hazard was 34% more compared to the risk of urban residents [R.R. =1.34, C.I {0.737, 2.436}]. But prevalence rate did not vary significantly with the variation of residents [=0.910, p –value= 0.340; Table 2].There were 85.2% Muslim adults and prevalence of diabetic disability was noted among 4.6% of them. The chance of this health problem for them was 69% more as it was for non-Muslim adults [R.R. =1.69, C.I. {0.613, 4.656}]. The prevalence rates for both religious groups were statistically similar [=1.069, p-value=0.301]. There were 49.9
Long-term complications of diabetes were reported in some earlier studies [4]. One of the complications is physical disability, especially among elderly adults in both developed and developing countries [5, 9, 10, and 35]. Strong association between diabetes and physical disability was reported in earlier studies [1, 6, 36, and 37]. Beside diabetes, some other clinical and socioeconomic variables were found associated with disability [35, 38, 39, and 40]. The presentation of this paper was to focus some responsible socioeconomic variables for the prevalence of diabetes disability among some Bangladeshi urban and rural adults of ages 18 years and above. For the purpose of the study the data were recorded from adults visiting some selected diagnostic centres of urban and semi-urban areas. The centres were selected purposively. The total investigated adults were 995; among them 498 were males and 497 were females. The percentages of diabetic patients and disable persons were 67.0 and 4.8, respectively in the sample. The diabetic disable patients were 43 (4.3%) and 952 adults were free of these two simultaneous health hazard. These two groups of respondents were discriminated and during discrimination some variables were identified as responsible for prevalence of diabetes disability.
In the sample there were 53.4% rural adults, 85.2% Muslim adults, 49.9
The objective of the paper was to identify some responsible socioeconomic variables for the prevalence of diabetes disability among Bangladeshi adults. The adults of ages 18 years and above visiting some pre-selected diagnostic centres located in urban and semi-urban areas were interviewed by some nurses and medical assistants of the centres. During investigation males and females were covered in the ratio 50.1: 49.9 to maintain the national level of sex ratio.
The sample covered 53.4% rural and 46.6% urban respondents. Diabetes was noted among 67% of the adults and disability was observed in 6.4% of them. Total disable adults were 4.8%.
Diabetes disability was predominant among females, Muslims and rural adults. All noted diabetic disable adults were found married. Adults of ages 40 – 50 years were at higher risk of prevalence of this health hazard compared to the risk of others. Housewives, adults of higher income group and lowest expenditure group of families were at higher risk of prevalence of the problem. But all the above socioeconomic variables were independent of diabetes disability. Adults involved in sedentary activity were at higher risk of facing the problem of this health hazard. Obese adults had around 4 times chance of affecting by the disease. Diabetic adults suffering for 10 – 15 years were at around 3 times risk of prevalence of the problem. Level of body mass index, smoking habit, utilization of time, and duration of diabetes were significantly associated with prevalence of diabetes disability.
The two groups of respondents were significantly different in respect of variables occupation, smoking habit, utilization of time, body mass index, and duration of diabetes. Out of these above mentioned variables, the most responsible one for discrimination of two groups of adults was body mass index followed by duration of diabetes, sedentary activity, smoking habit, occupation, etc.
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