An engineering module to identify potential diabetes patients and preventive measures for diabetes in developing countries like Bangladesh

Abstract

Diabetes has demonstrated as the main chronic disease and crucial problem in Bangladesh. According to a data of International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Bangladesh is the 10th in terms of diabetes patients in the world and diabetes prevalence in Bangladesh would reach from present 7 to 12 million by 2035 posing a colossal challenge to the health care system. People of all ages are being affected with diabetes, which has become a silent killer. Objective of this study is to develop a module with assistance of doctors and CE/BME which will be used to identify the actual number of diabetes patients and measure the potential risk on health index. The goal of this study is to bring as much people as possible within survey and find the potential diabetic patients together with the peoples who might not have diabetes now but possess the credible risk factors. We will be able to provide preventive information to these populations and motivate and suggest for more care on individual health to avoid diabetes. An optimized software and database is designed for performing several tasks to analyze the patients’ data collected from various hospitals’ of Bangladesh. The numerical statistic will represent the overall patients’ health index for diseases and assessment will allow us to determine the actual patients’ number with appropriate threat in categories of diabetes diseases. Findings can confirm both individuals with diabetes and the control group with possible diabetes threat. Proper Diagnosis and treatment then can be assured for these individuals and national precautionary action will accomplish through regulatory control. Future assessment and intervention can be further explored from the perspectives of patients and diabetes information processing which can improve the patients’ indexing, safety and health care management in many developing countries.