Modelling of Diabetes Mellitus Data

Abstract

Diabetes afflicts a large number of people of all social conditions throughout the world. So, it is a major health problem of all the countries of the world including Bangladesh. Inspite of increasing advances in the past several years in almost every field of diabetes research and patient care, the personal and public health problem of diabetes, already of vast proportion, continuously increasing day by day. The scale of the problem that diabetes poses to world health is still widely under recognized. Recent estimates predict that if current trends continue the number of persons with diabetes will be more than double, from 140 million to 300 million in the next 25 years. The greater proportion of the increase is likely to occur in the developing countries, which are the communities who can least afford it [Source: http://www.who.int/ncd/dia/index.htm]. Bangladesh also possess the same picture. Surveys conducted by DAB ( 1995) reveals that the number of diabetic patients in Bangladesh is 1 to 1.5 percent of the total population. The rate is higher in the urban and industrial areas, perhaps the cause is to adequate physical work of rural areas.