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Background: Globally, people living with diabetes were estimated to be 422 million in year 2014. In India, an estimated 7.8% have diabetes. Early detection and prompt treatment for diabetes is key to achieve sustained control and prevent complications. The Indian diabetic risk score (IDRS) is one of simple screening tool to find the risk for diabetes in the community of filed practice area of teaching hospital.Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted in urban and rural field practice area during the period of 1st January to 30th September 2018. As per global health report on diabetes, World Health Organization 2016, prevalence of diabetes in India was found to be 7.8%. Considering allowable error as 20% sample size was 1183 which was rounded up to 1200 with 600 each in urban and rural field practice area. The data was collected with bio- data and IDRS questionnaire which includes age, physical exercise, waist circumference and family history of diabetes.Results: Total 1200 Study participants were included in the study. It was observed that 821 (68.41%) were female participants and 379 (31.59%) were male participants. High risk for diabetes was observed in 329 (27.42%) participants. Among the high-risk participants, 194 (58.96%) were from the urban area and 135 (41.04%) were from the rural area. The association between increasing BMI with high IDRS was observed and found statistically significant. High blood pressure was observed among the participants having high IDRS and findings were statistically significant.Conclusions: This simplified IDRS is cost-effective tool to screen the community on large scale.

Background: Lifestyle diseases are non-communicable diseases (NCDs) of long duration and slow progression and are result of combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors. NCDs kill approximately 41 million people (71% of global deaths) worldwide each year, which includes 14 million premature deaths aged between 30 and 70 years. Aim: The aim of this study is to compare prevalence of obesity, diabetes and hypertension in Maharashtra as per NFHS-4 (2015–16) and NFHS-5 survey (2019–20). Methods: This study was based on the data from the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) and fourth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) for the state of Maharashtra. NFHS-5 survey for Maharashtra was conducted from 19 June 2019 to 30 December 2019. Results: Prevalence of Diabetes was observed as 12.4% among women and 13.6% among men, prevalence of hypertension was observed 23.1% among women and 24.4% among men and prevalence of increased Waist Hip ratio was seen 44.5% among women and 40.7% among men. Conclusion: It has been noted that the lifestyle diseases are on the rise as compared with the last decade. The policy makers should focus all these diseases as the need of the hour.