Continuous glucose monitoring studies to evaluate the glycemic properties of a diet including health foods with lower glycemic index in elderly population with type 2 diabetes.

Age is an independent risk factor for non-communicable diseases such as diabetes andcardiovascular diseases. According to the census 2011 there are nearly 104 million elderly personin India. The ageing population faces numerous challenges like difficulty in food consumption(swallowing), dentures, physical inactivity, isolation from the family, financial constraints etc. Thereare plenty of health foods available in market for general population but specific food for elderlypopulation with diabetes especially convenience foods are almost nil. Due to physical inability many depend on home cooked meals and many a times lackof hygiene seems to be an issue. Hence, it is very important to develop convenience foods whichare easy to prepare and appropriate for old aged people with lower glycemic properties to suit theneeds of elderly with diabetes.Hence the current study is to assessthe effect of diet including newly developed health foods with lower glycemicindex in elderly population with diabetes compared to the control diet using continuousglucose monitoring (CGM) to examine the 24 h glycemic response.This study will be a proof-of-concept study and the findings will beconsidered to develop a health food kit for elderly population with diabetes.