title: Study of life style habits on risk of type 2 diabetes.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Diabetes mellitus has become one of the great epidemics of our time.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Characterized by derangement of carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism. Diabetic patients may have some other habits like drinking, smoking, lack of physical activity. In the present study, we have tried to study the effect of all these habits on lipid profile and antioxidative enzymes, i.e., catalase and superoxide dismutase.
  
  
  METHODS
  Different kits and standard biochemical methods were used to estimate all these parameters.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Diabetics as well as diabetic individuals who were engaged in drinking, smoking and regular physical exercise showed a significant rise in glucose levels compared to normal subjects. Similarly, cholesterol, triglyceride and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and activity of catalase were found to be increased in all diabetic subjects, but that of superoxide dismutase decreased as compared to normal subjects. In all cases, exercise has a beneficial effect. Furthermore, females were more prone to destructive effects of diabetes than males.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We can conclude that smoking and drinking by diabetic subjects further deteriorates the effects of diabetes, while regular physical exercise has beneficial effects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, SEGi University, Kota Damansara, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pathak
authors.forename: Ashima
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pathak
keywords: Antioxidative enzymes; diabetes mellitus; drinking; lipid profile; physical activity; smoking