To find out risk of metabolic syndrome in an urban resettlement colony of Delhi

Not yet recruiting

Conditions: apparently healthy individuals

Registration Number: CTRI/2023/01/049151

Lead Sponsor: Dept Of Community Medicine Maulana Azad medical college

Brief Summary: There is aparadigm shift in the disease patterns all around the world. The last threedecades have seen a rapid increase in the non-communicable disease (NCD)related morbidity and mortality. The key risk factors for developing of NCDssuch as abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension and hyperlipidaemiaare grouped together under the heading of metabolic syndrome. In this study weaim to do a community-based screening to estimate the prevalence of metabolicsyndrome and its risk factors in a densely populated urban settlement in Delhi.The results of this study would help in understanding the difference inprevalence pattern of risk factors in community and help guide the policymaking process for devising effective prevention, control and treatmentstrategies for metabolic syndrome.

The study willbe conducted in an urban resettlement colony of Gokalpuri, which comes under the field practice area of Department of Community medicine, Maulana Azad medical College for a period of 3months. A total of 200 participants will be selected from block B of Gokalpuricolony by systematic random sampling.

Theparticipants selected would be interviewed through a semi-structuredquestionnaire and they would undergo screening and examination to evaluate thepresence of Metabolic syndrome and other risk factors for developing NCDs inthe future. The data will be collected using mobile application Epicollect5 andanalyzed using Statistical Package for theSocial Sciences (SPSS) version 25.

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Not Yet Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

All adults above 18 years of age residing for more than 6 months in the study area.

Exclusion Criteria

Persons who are hospitalized with any debilitating disease will be excluded.
The cases with diagnosed endocrine or metabolic (except diagnosed cases of diabetes and metabolic syndrome) or kidney disease or on any glucose altering drugs.

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Outcomes	at the end of the staudy that is 3 months
1. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome cases amongst Adults.	at the end of the staudy that is 3 months
2. Association of metabolic syndrome with the demographic (age, gender, etc.), socio-economic, biological, behavioral factors.	at the end of the staudy that is 3 months
3. Level of medication adherence pattern amongst previously diagnosed hypertension and diabetes patients.	at the end of the staudy that is 3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
3. Level of medication adherence pattern amongst previously diagnosed hypertension patients.

Trial Locations

Locations (1): Urban Health centre,Department of Community Medicine,Maulana Azad Medical college
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East, DELHI, India
Urban Health centre,Department of Community Medicine,Maulana Azad Medical college
🇮🇳East, DELHI, India
Dr Heena Lalwani
Principal investigator
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heena.lalwani91@gmail.com