To evaluate the awareness of risk factors for diabetes, hypertension and obesity in Guwahati city, amongst attendants of patients.

The recent findings from ICMR study Indiab on NCDs (Anjana 2011et al.) showing diabetes 11.4%, prediabetes 15.3%, hypertension 35.5%, generalized obesity 28.6% in urban India, prompted us to design a questionnaire based study amongst the attendants of the patients who comes for treatment of these clinical conditions. NCDs being asymptomatic in more than 50% of the population, it is pertinent that awareness and preventive measures be taken early to highlight the factors which would help health care providers in defining preventive strategies for primary prevention