A Study on Nutritional Status and Health Complications among People Suffering from Lifestyle Diseases

Lifestyle diseases are very common in today’s scenario because of people’s unhealthy dietary patterns or routine activity which leads to the development of chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, heart diseases, obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, different types of cancer etc. To assess the nutritional and health status, the experiment was conducted on a total of 40 respondents (21 male and 19 female) above 45 years in Pusa block through personal interviews with the help of a schedule containing a questionnaire related to their general information, occupation, health complications, anthropometric indices, biochemical or physiological details etc. Most of the respondents were government employees (45 %) followed by private (7.50%), unemployed (32.50%) and retired (15%) persons. There were more cases of diabetes mellitus (27.50% male and 17.50% female) followed by heart diseases (7.50% male and 10% female) and obesity (5% male and 7.50% female). The Body Mass Index (BMI) of both males (25.62 kg/m²) and females (26.07 kg/m²) was more than the reference standard. Moreover, 37.50 per cent subjects (15% male and 22.50% female) were found to be anaemic whereas 15 subjects have pre-prandial blood glucose levels between 125-200 mg/dl and 20 subjects have postprandial blood glucose level between 200-300 mg/dl. The systolic (130.77 mm of Hg) and diastolic (87.55 mm of Hg) blood pressure of 9 subjects was also more than the reference standard. Therefore, to cope up with lifestyle consequences and chronic medical health complications, diet modification and healthy routine patterns are necessary to be followed.