Prevalence of diabetes mellitus among obese and non-obese patients with coronary artery disease.

Globally,obesity is now recognised as an epidemic. the degree of obesity is proportional to the rate of development of cardiovascular diseases,hence,resulting in a dramatic increase in morbidity and mortality. apart from obesity,diabetes mellitus is another well recognised risk factor contributing to coronary artery disease. the precise prevalence of obesity-related diabetes varies with age,race and gender; and is yet unknown in our population. we therefore,carried out this study with the aim to determine the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in obese and non-obese patients with diagnosed coronary artery disease. this hospital based cross-sectional comparative study was conducted in cardiology department of postgraduate medical institute,lady reading hospital,peshawar,from 15th march 2005 to 30th may 2006. a total of 200 patients with diagnosed coronary artery disease were enrolled,100 were classified as obese and 100 as non-obese. among these,139 patients were male and 61 female. a total of 88 were found to be diabetic,54 of these were obese and 34 non-obese (p = 0.004). diabetes mellitus was significantly more frequent among obese patients with coronary artery disease as compared to non obese patients with coronary artery disease.