RESEARCH ARTICLE Risk factors for self-reported diabetes among Bhutanese adults: A nationally representative survey data analysis 1,2 3 Kinley WangdiID *, Tshering Jamtsho 1 Phuentsholing General Hospital, Phuentsholing, Bhutan, 2 Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, College of Health and Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 3 School of Demography, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia a1111111111 a1111111111 *
[email protected] a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract Background Bhutan, a small land-locked country in the eastern Himalayas has been undergoing an epi- OPEN ACCESS demiological and nutritional transition in the last two decades. The objective of this paper Citation: Wangdi K, Jamtsho T (2018) Risk factors for self-reported diabetes among Bhutanese adults: was to determine the prevalence and explore the risk factors of self-reported diabetes A nationally representative survey data analysis. among Bhutanese adults. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0206034. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0206034 Methods Editor: Xianwu Cheng, Nagoya University, JAPAN We conducted a secondary data analysis among adults 18 years and older Bhutanese Received: September 29, 2017 using the data from the National Health Survey 2012 (NHS, 2012) of Bhutan. The self- Accepted: October 7, 2018 reported information on risk factors was obtained using standard protocols of the WHO STEPwise approach to Surveillance. The outcome of interest was self-reported diabetes on Published: November 15, 2018 medication. Adjusted and unadjusted logistic regression analyses were performed to iden- Copyright: © 2018 Wangdi, Jamtsho. This is an tify the risk factor of diabetes. open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and Results reproduction in any medium, provided the original A total of 31,066 participants aged 18 years and older were included for the analysis.