A study on nutritional status, related factors and high blood glucoza level of adults aged 40 to 60 living in a center district of Hanoi city

From March to December 2002, 890 subjects aged 40-60 with high blood sugar, in Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi city were investigated. Of them 6.1% had fasting capilary blood sugar level at  116mg/dl, with no difference between male and female subject, the incidence of high blood sugar increased with the age, 3.7% in the group of 40-49 and 8.9% in the group of 50-60. Blood pressure is 12.7%, higher in male than in female (18.7% and 11.1%), this incidence increased with the age. There were relations between high blood sugar with blood pressure, with BMI, and with abdomen obesis, body fat percentage and family history of diabetes