Introduction: Diabetes is a metabolic disorder caused by genetic and environmental factors, which results in insulin insensitivity, insulin deficiency, and impaired biological function. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic condition that can lead to severe and life-threatening consequences, necessitates a lifestyle change, and has significant implications for health and health-related quality of life (HRQOL).Sufficient medical care and patient education are not provided to the diabetic patients, patients are at a considerably increased risk of diabetic complications .Various types of physical activity, including flexibility and balancing exercises, improve health and glucose control in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Objective: To find the Association between physical activity and health status among patients with diabetes mellitus. Methodology: This Descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital Gujrat among 244 patients. In this study, diagnosed diabetic type1 and type 2 patients between the ages of 40 to 70 years were enrolled via non-probability convenient sampling. Participants who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected. IPAQ and VascuQoL-6 was used as a diagnostic tool for assessment. At 95% confidence level, Version 24.0 of SPSS software was used for data entry and analysis. The chi-square test was employed to determine the association between physical activity and health status of diabetic patients. Results: Out of 244 participants of age 40 to 70years 81 was males and 163 females, the mean age and standard deviation was 52.9508±9.43189. According to IPAQ the mean age and standard deviation of the male was (81)34.0370±8.17534 and the female was (163) 32.6135±16.6626. According to VascuQoL-6 the mean age and standard deviation of male was (81)17.197± 4.52056 while the female mean age and standard deviation was(163) 16.6626± 4.78710. Males health status and physical activity ( p-value =.537) and the females (p-value=.351) were considered as statistically significant with p-value<0.05. Conclusion: This present study indicates that the physical activity and health status of male diabetic patient is less compromise as campare to females. The females health status were more affected with diabetes as campare to males. Awareness programs should be started to decrease the risk of DM and educate them about modifiable risk factors and how they improve their health status.

physical activity, DM, Health Status, IPAQ, QoL.