Prediction of diabetes based on personal lifestyle indicators

Diabetes Mellitus or Diabetes has been portrayed as worse than Cancer and HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). It develops when there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period. Recently, it has been quoted as a risk factor for developing Alzheimer, and a leading cause for blindness & kidney failure. Prevention of the disease is a hot topic for research in the healthcare community. Many techniques have been discovered to find the causes of diabetes and cure it. This research paper is a discussion on establishing a relationship between diabetes risk likely to be developed from a person's daily lifestyle activities such as his/her eating habits, sleeping habits, physical activity along with other indicators like BMI (Body Mass Index), waist circumference etc. Initially, a Chi-Squared Test of Independence was performed followed by application of the CART (Classification and Regression Trees) machine learning algorithm on the data and finally using Cross-Validation, the bias in the results was removed.