Subjects and Methods:
This is an observational cohort study which was conducted at SDH
Hospital Sopore during November 2019 to December 2020 among diabetic
patients aged 40 years and above .A total of 450 patients were
registered for the study who agreed and gave consent to take part in
this study of which 50 lost follow up and finally 400 were assessed.(200
cases and 200 control subjects).Subjects were screened and randomised by
schedule of permuted block randomisation with block size 4 was used drug
allotment. Subjects diagnosed with DM and taking oral anti diabetics
were considered to have DM. Type2 DM diagnosis was made in accordance
with the world health organisation criteria where patients having
fasting blood glucose level greater than 126mg/dl and post prandial
glucose greater than 200mg/dl were considered to be diabetic. (19) The
inclusion criteria were: (1)subjects diagnosed with T2DM (2) taking oral
medications for around 1 year. (3) ≥ 40 years old (4) formal written
informed consent.