Diabetes Mellitus in Nepal from 2000 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis

The systematic review was registered in PROSPERO
(CRD42020215247) and was documented according to the Meta-Analysis of
Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) guidelines. We used electronic databases like PubMed, PubMed
Central, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Embase to search relevant articles from 2000
to 2020 using the appropriate keywords like “diabetes mellitus”, “high blood
sugar”, “type 2 diabetes”, “prevalence”, “risk factor” and “Nepal” along with relevant
Boolean operators. The eligibility
criteria for inclusion were:1.
All papers (cross-sectional studies, case
series reporting more than 50 patients, cohort study, RCTs) mentioning
prevalence of Type 2 DM and/or detail of DM like risk factors, outcome, and
outcome predictors

2.
Studies conducted from 2000 onwards till 2020

3.
Studies in Nepal only.

4. Published
articles.

We excluded

1.
Editorials, commentaries, viewpoint articles
with no proper data of diabetes mellitus and lacking adequate data of interest
will be excluded.

2.
Studies conducted outside Nepal.

3.
Studies before 1999 AD.
4. Studies
of Type 1 DM and GDM.