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.