Impacts of Socioeconomic Variables on Prevalence and Duration of Diabetes in Bangladeshi Adults

Abstract

The analysis presented here was to identify some responsible variables for the prevalence of diabetes for different duration in Bangladeshi adults. For this, 995 adults of ages 18 years and above whom visited different diagnostic centres in both urban and semi-urban areas were interviewed. Out of 995 respondents, 67.0% were diabetic patients and they were suffering for, on an average, 6.59 years with standard deviation of 4.06 years. The percentage of adults suffering for minimum 10 years was 17.1. The corresponding percentage was significantly higher for males (23.5%), single adults (27.5%0, elderly people (63.1%), farmers (22.1%) and business persons (20.1%), adults of families having medium income(17.9%), smokers (25.5%), adults involved in sedentary activity (23.3%), obese adults (30.3%) and hypertensive adults (64.4%).The risk of prevalence of diabetes for males was 14% more as it was for females. Similar higher risk was observed for single persons (43%), elderly people (36%), literate people (19%), businessmen ( 11%), obese adults ( 13%), smokers (10%), adults involved in sedentary activity ( 16%) and hypertensive adults ( 26%), The binary logistic regression analysis indicated that gender variation, marital status, age, occupation, body mass index, and blood pressure were the responsible variables for the prevalence of diabetes.