The Relationship between Lifestyle and The Incidence of Disrupted Fasting Blood Sugar

Abstract

Background: This hybrid education forces us to become sedentary, but there is a difference between the time before and during the pandemic. This sedentary life event raises the possibility of an increase in fasting blood sugar even at a young age, so that it can lead to insulin resistance earlier. Lifestyle patterns are one of the risk factors often abused by the community for impaired fasting blood sugar, which also has the potential to become diabetes mellitus. Every year the prevalence of impaired fasting blood sugar incidence increases worldwide, and it is estimated that there will be 470 million people diagnosed with impaired fasting blood sugar by 2030 Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship between lifestyle and the incidence of impaired fasting blood sugar in students of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Muhammadiyah Surabaya. Method: The study was conducted using an observational analytical method with a cross-sectional study type. A minimum sample of 79 respondents with simple random sampling. Instrument to assess lifestyle using Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II questionnaire, for fasting blood sugar using glucometer. Results: The results showed a lifestyle relationship to impaired fasting blood sugar incidence with a significance value of 0.000 and a correlation value of 0.621. This value interprets a strong positive relationship where lifestyle has a unidirectional relationship with fasting blood sugar values. Conclusion: Based on these data, it is concluded that there is a significant unidirectional relationship between lifestyle and the incidence of impaired fasting blood sugar.

Keywords

• lifestyle
• sedentary
• disturbed fasting blood sugar
• prediabetes