The 10-year study included 113,000 people over the age of 20 from every state
A new study published in the journal The Lancet estimates that 101 million people in India – 11.4% of the country’s population – have diabetes.
A survey commissioned by the Ministry of Health also found that 136 million people – or 15.3% of the population – could have prediabetes.
Recall that type 2 diabetes is the most common form.
Affected people experience high blood sugar because they are unable to produce enough insulin or respond to it properly.
The latest study, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, is the first to comprehensively cover all of India’s regions to assess the country’s non-communicable disease burden.
Diabetic Indians walk to raise awareness of the disease
The researchers said they found that the prevalence of diabetes in India’s population was much higher than previously expected. And she was The World Health Organization has estimated that 77 million people suffer from diabetes, and that approximately 25 million people have pre-diabetes, and they are more likely to develop diabetes in the near future.
“It’s a ticking time bomb,” Dr RM Anjana, lead author of the study and director general at Dr Mohan’s Diabetes Specialty Centre, told The Indian Express.
She added, “If you are prediabetic, the transition to diabetes is very rapid in our society; more than 60% of people with prediabetes end up converting to diabetes within five years.”
The decade-long study was conducted by the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and involved 113,000 people over the age of 20 from every state in India.
Data collected from 2008 to 2021 was extrapolated using the demographics of the most recent National Family Health Survey, the most comprehensive household survey of health and social indicators ever conducted by the government.
Examination of a young man to see if he has diabetes
The highest prevalence of diabetes was observed in the states of Goa (26.4%), Puducherry (26.3%) and Kerala (25.5%).
The study warned of a sharp rise in diabetes in states such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh, where its prevalence was lower.
The study also found that diabetes was more common in urban areas than in rural areas.
Rahul Baxi, a consultant diabetologist at Bombay Hospital, told the BBC: “Changes in lifestyle, improvement in living standards, migration to cities, irregular working hours, sedentary habits, stress, pollution, changing dietary habits and easy availability of junk food are some of the reasons The rise of diabetes in India.”
Dr. Baxi added that diabetes “is no longer a disease of the wealthy or those who live in cities.”
“I see a large number of patients traveling from small towns, I see a higher prevalence of pre-diabetes and many people who go undiagnosed for a long time,” he said.
Dr. Baxi added that he has been seeing a lot of younger patients over the past few years.
He said, “I’ve seen some cases of children of my patients who had just checked their glucose levels at home, their parents checked them and found the levels to be high!”
Diabetes affects 1 in 11 adults worldwide and increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and amputation.
The disease is usually divided into type 1 and type 2.
Type 1 diabetes affects the immune system. It attacks the body’s insulin factories (beta cells) so there isn’t enough of the hormone to control blood sugar levels.
Type 2 diabetes is largely seen as a disease of poor lifestyle in which body fat can affect the way insulin works.
2023-06-09 16:26:51
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