Changing trends of plasma Glucose and serum Insulin levels among adult males of native Mising population of Assam: A Ten year follow up study

Fasting Insulin and Glucose levels are very good indicators of an individual's glucose metabolic status. Glucose metabolism among different ethnic groups may vary due to difference in genetic makeup as well as their food habits and lifestyles. A study was carried out on the Missing tribe of upper Assam a specific ethnic tribal population, on whom there is hardly any published data available, to observe the trend of fasting Insulin, Glucose and Insulin:Glucose ratios in this unique population in 2003 and again in 2014, and to correlate the effect of changing lifestyle on them. Fasting serum Insulin, plasma Glucose and Insulin:Glucose ratio were recorded for a group of 100 randomly selected non-diabetic males of the indigenous Mising tribe of upper Assam, of the age group 30-40 years. 50 among these 100 subjects could be traced again in 2014 and the same parameters were studied, after an interval of 10 years and compared with their present fasting Insulin and Glucose levels.