The work entitled Body Mass Index and Lipid Levels in Type2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Tirupati Urban; Andhra Pradesh has been a sincere attempt of assimilation of most of the topics like overweight/obesity and nature of disorders of diabetes besides the socio economical factors. In that direction this title endeavored shall act as a hand book. The study may form base line data for the region would also be of utility for future surveillance and secular trends of diabetes. The economic well-being of the people as also the quality of the life styles is well indicated by the changes in the bio-demographic picture of the population. The meaning of the association from the stand point of a particular target population and human society in general. This book is especially useful for a multi ethnic, multi lingual and multi religious country like India which is in the throes of development. Studies of this nature contribute to the nation s development and all other spheres of human life and activity.