ABSTRACT

Background: Routine health checkups are done in a tertiary care centre in Chennai for those coming with health seeking behavior and for obtaining medical certificates. Thus the current study was conducted to assess the health status of these individuals attending the routine health checkup unit to detect new cases of chronic illnesses like diabetes mellitus, hypertension and dyslipidemia among individuals attending a tertiary care hospital. Methods: A hospital data based study was conducted among the individuals attending master health checkup in a tertiary care center, in Chennai during the period March 2019 to August 2019. A total of 204 participants were included in this study. The data included Fasting blood sugar,Post Prandial blood sugar, blood pressure measurements, HbA1c levels and fasting lipd profile and analysis was done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Results: Routine health checkup picked new cases of diabetes mellitus and hypertension in the proportion of 11.5% and 27.2%, respectively, among the non diabetic and non hypertensive cases. Also among the non dyslipidemic cases, routine health checkups help to find 36.6%, 33.5% and 33.5% of cases with elevated triglycerides, low HDL and high LDL, respectively. The association between history of Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension was found to be significantly associated with findings of routine health checkups whereas the triglycerides, HDL and LDL were not significantly associated. Conclusion: People can be encouraged to utilize routine health checkups for early detection of disease and to adopt timely interventions. Keywords: Routine Health checkups, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia
Publication date: 01/10/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.10.6115