title: The Association Between Pre-Diabetes With Body Mass Index and Marital Status in an Iranian Urban Population.
abstract: Pre-diabetes increased the development of diabetes mellitus (type 2). The aim of study was to determine the association of body weight, education and marital status with pre-diabetes in an Iranian urban population.A sample of 788 subjects (360 men and 428 women) between the ages 30-85 years participated in our study and anthropometric measurements, educational level and fasting blood sugar of participants were recorded. The t and Chi square tests were used for continuous and categorical variables. The association of age, BMI categories, educational level and marital status to pre-diabetes was assessed by estimating the odds ratio. A p-value ≤ 0.05 were considered significant. The analysis was done using SPSS version 11.5. Our study showed that pre-diabetic subjects were older and low educated than normoglycemic subjects. Mean BMI and educational level were associated to pre-diabetes only in women. The odds of being pre-diabetes also were higher in obese women than in normal BMI women. No relationship was found between education and marital status with pre-diabetes in both men and women. Based on our finding, it is possible that advancing age and obesity has increased in pre-diabetes. This highlights the importance of population based survey to monitor blood glucose for effective prevention and control.
authors.affiliation: . sotoodehj2002@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Karamatollah
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rahmanian
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shojaei
authors.forename: Abdolreza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sotoodeh Jahromi
authors.forename: Abdoulhossein
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Madani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D011236:Prediabetic State / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose