It has been reported that occurrence of diabetes in a late age is linked with over all obesity, lifestyle, eating habits besides genetic constraints. Clinician use to put prime focus on BMI criteria to identify diabetes risk, though waist circumference has not been widely adopted in clinical practice. Recent studies [1] suggest abdominal fat measured by waist circumference can indicate a strong risk for diabetes whether or man considered over weight or obese, according to BMI. It was also observed that in elderly population sedentary lifestyle is the prime factor of diabetes instead of high BMI. Objective of this study to explore the relation (i) between waist circumference and BMI at the onset age (40-50) of diabetes (ii) to examine the impact of sedentary lifestyle in elderly population (50 and above). Study reported majority of cases with higher waist measurement (average 93.4cm in males and 90.3 cm in females) along with normal BMI in age group of 40 to 50 yrs. In case of elderly persons it was observed that their BMI was in normal range still they are severely diabetic and at the same time they were suffering with the related disorders.

Fungal diseases have become increasingly important in the past few years; especially in debilitated patients. Keeping the above facts in view 25 skin samples of the diabetic patients were studied for the production of phospholipase enzyme that plays a key role in fungal invasion and pathogenesis in human and animal dermatophytosis. Amongst these samples 22 were found positive for fungal infections. The common clinical isolates obtained were Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger, Candida glabrata, Fusarium oxysporum and Rhizopus arrhizus. These isolates were screened for phospholipase production (Price et al.method). Fusarium oxysporum. exhibited maximum phospholipase activity followed by, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus fumigatus indicating them to be pathogenic in nature.