Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a collection of common metabolic disorder mainly considered by hyperglycemia which results commencing from defective insulin secretion or insulin action or together.It is a diverse group of diseases with different group of etiology such as social, environmental and genetic factors which acting concurrently or mutually.Obesity and particularly abdominal obesity are strongly associated with insulin resistance. The etiology of diabetes is attributed to environmental and genetic factors. The modifiable risk factors like abdominal obesity and physical inactivity are major contributors to the disease. Rapid lifestyle changes, other non-communicable diseases like hypertension, dyslipidemia are also major etiologic factors for the rising incidence of type 2 diabetes around the globe.

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