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2014 Month : February Volume : 3 Issue : 7 Page : 1642-1655

EFFECT OF YOGA IN PATIENT'S WITH TYPE-II DIABETES MELLITUS

Satarupa Dash1, Atanu Kumar Thakur2

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Dr. Satarupa Dash
C/o, P.K. Das,
A-31, J.M Colony,
Budharaja, Sambalpur,
Odisha – 768004.
E-mail: satarupa.sbp@gmail.com

ABSTRACT: Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most common chronic non-communicable diseases in the world. Type 2 DM is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by a genetic predisposition and interaction between insulin resistance and pancreatic beta cell dysfunction. In addition to increased glucose level metabolic disorder of plasma lipid also occur in NIDDM patients. Yoga is an ancient Indian science. Nowadays yoga has been applied in the field of therapeutics in various diseases like hypertension, diabetes, asthma. In this case study had been conducted to understand effect of yoga in type 2 diabetics. The study is conducted on outdoor patient basis at Dept. of physiology V.S.S Medical College Burla with the help of department of Medicine and yoga center sambalpur. Sixty patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) were divided into two separate groups. Group I (n1 = 30) patients belonged to the Yoga group were put through various Yogic asana for 40 days, together with diet plus diabetic medicines. Group II (n2 = 30) patients or the control group patients, were retained on diet plus normal medical therapy. The basal parameters included in the biochemical investigations are FBG, PPBG, HbA1C and lipid profile. Data related to biochemical tests were analyzed by using SPSS programme version of 16.0 software facilities in the computer. From the statistical analysis of the results obtained in the present study and their comparison with other published reports, it may be concluded that yoga helps in decreasing blood sugar level and keep the diabetes in control. So also the reduction in HbA1C protects the patients from early development of various microvascular and macrovascular complications of diabetes mellitus. The change in lipid profile status prevents the early development of comorbid condition like hypertension, coronary artery disease. It can be concluded that yoga asana and pranayama may be used as an adjunct to medical therapy to optimize the biochemical parameters. Yoga therapy also improves the status of diabetics in terms of reduction of drug doses, physical and mental alertness and prevention of complications.

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