PMID- 23730634
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130605
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 2249-782X (Print)
IS  - 0973-709X (Electronic)
IS  - 0973-709X (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 4
DP  - 2013 Apr
TI  - Association Between Waist Circumference and Serum Triacylglcerol Status in Type 2 
      Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM): A Study Performed on a Rural Population in Puducherry.
PG  - 631-4
LID - 10.7860/JCDR/2013/5198.2869 [doi]
AB  - INTRODUCTION: India is on the verge of being the diabetic capital of the world, 
      owing to the increasing prevalence of diabetes in India. The aim of this study 
      was to find the association between anthropometry and dyslipidaemia, with a 
      particular reference to the triacylglycerol levels, besides suggesting a better 
      anthropometric variable. METHOD: A group of eighty diabetic patients took part in 
      the study. The Waist Circumference (WC), the waist to hip ratio, the serum 
      triacylglycerol (TAG) levels and the glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels were 
      measured and studied. RESULTS: We found out that there was a significant 
      association between the WC and the TAG levels (p-value = 0.030), between high TAG 
      levels and high HbA1c values (p-value = 0.038) with greater accuracy, in favour 
      of the waist circumference. CONCLUSION: This depicted the fact that a simple 
      measuring tape which is used in measuring the WC, could prove to be a useful and 
      a cost-effective diagnostic approach for monitoring the metabolic complications 
      of type 2 DM.
FAU - Srinivasan, Arunkumar
AU  - Srinivasan A
AD  - Third Year MBBS Student Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute , 
      Puducherry, India .
FAU - Joshi, Prabal
AU  - Joshi P
FAU - A Raghavan, Srinivasan
AU  - A Raghavan S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130401
PL  - India
TA  - J Clin Diagn Res
JT  - Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR
JID - 101488993
PMC - PMC3644432
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Diabetes mellitus
OT  - Dyslipidaemia
OT  - HbA1c
OT  - Triacylglycerol
OT  - Waist circumference
OT  - Waist to hip ratio
EDAT- 2013/06/05 06:00
MHDA- 2013/06/05 06:01
PMCR- 2013/06/01
CRDT- 2013/06/05 06:00
PHST- 2012/10/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/01/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/06/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/06/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/06/05 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2013/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.7860/JCDR/2013/5198.2869 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Clin Diagn Res. 2013 Apr;7(4):631-4. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2013/5198.2869. Epub 
      2013 Apr 1.