Title

Cardiovascular risk prevention awareness and practices in type 2 diabetes: Linking HbA1c and lipid levels

Authors

Nandita Tallam¹, Harshitha Kumar², Sneha Parve³, Kiran Tawalare⁴, Aswathy T Menon⁵, Pranathi Danda^6,* & Gourav Singh Shekhawat⁷

Affiliation

¹Department of Anatomy, Mediciti institute of Medical Sciences, Telangana India; ²Department of OHC, UR Life Apollo wellness, Karnataka, India; ³Department of Community Medicine, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences & RC and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, India; ⁴Department of Ayurveda, Shri Ayurved College, Nagpur, India; ⁵Department of General Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College, Tamil Nadu, India; ⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences, Medchal, Hyderabad, Telangana, India; ⁷Department of Community Medicine, Rajasthan University of Health Science and Jai Durga College of Nursing, Rajasthan India; *Corresponding author

Email

Nandita Tallam - E-mail: dr.tallamnandita@gmail.com; Phone: +91 9949390688

Harshitha Kumar - E-mail: drharshithakumar@gmail.com; Phone: +91 6366303965

Sneha Parve - E-mail: snehaparve@gmail.com

Kiran Tawalare - E-mail: drkirantawlare@gmail.com; Phone: +91 9226209022

Aswathy T Menon - E-mail: aswathymnn732@gmail.com; Phone: +91 9025519073

Pranathi Danda - E-mail: pranathidanda@gmail.com; Phone: +91 7032855299

Gourav Singh Shekhawat - E-mail: kausalysamy100@gmail.com; Phone: +91 9488775661

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received April 1, 2026; Revised April 30, 2026; Accepted April 30, 2026, Published April 30, 2026

Abstract

Cardiovascular risk remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), yet awareness and preventive practices are often inadequate. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate cardiovascular risk prevention awareness and practices among T2DM patients and examined their correlation with HbA1c and lipid profiles. Data on lifestyle practices, medication adherence and risk awareness were collected and analyzed alongside glycemic and lipid parameters. Higher awareness and better preventive practices were significantly associated with improved glycemic control and favorable lipid levels. Thus, we show the importance of targeted patient education to enhance cardiovascular risk prevention and optimize metabolic outcomes in T2DM.

Keywords

Diabetes mellitus; cardiovascular risk prevention; knowledge-attitude-practice; lipids; HbA1c

Citation

Tallam et al. Bioinformation 22(4): 2129-2133 (2026)

Edited by

A Prashanth

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.