Mohtasham Ghaffari, Bita Sadeghi, Sara Dadipoor, Ali Safari-Moradabadi
Enhancing physical activity participation among female employees: evaluating the effectiveness of an educational intervention
Health education research
background prevalence type 2 diabetes mellitus t2dm obesity alarmingly increasing accessibility modern lifestyle study aimed assess association obesity t2dm among patients visiting medicine department ayub teaching hospital abbottabad pakistan method hospitalbased unmatched casecontrol study conducted march 2022 september 2022 total 200 patients age 18 100 cases 100 controls recruited patients history t2dm selected cases without diabetes selected controls taking informed written consent patients bmi 25 considered obese data collected nonprobability convenience sampling technique using selfstructured nonvalidated questionnaire data organized analyzed ibm spss statistics windows version 260 ibm corp armonk ny results found significant positive association obesity t2dm crude odds ratio 36 95 ci 2066 pvalue 0000 adjusted odd ratio 37 95 ci 19 71 pvalue 0004 adjusted potential confounders including gender age group stress status physical activeness using logistic regression model conclusion concluded obesity strongly associated developing t2dm lack physical activity people 45 years males obesity higher chance developing t2dm