Title: World Health Day: India among top 3 countries with high diabetic population | Lifestyle News,The Indian Express
Headings: World Health Day: India among top 3 countries with high diabetic population
World Health Day: India among top 3 countries with high diabetic population
Diabetes cases up to 422 million worldwide; India ranks among top 3 countries with diabetic population.

Content: Unless early detection and effective treatment become a part of routinely available primary health services, we will fail in protecting persons with diabetes from having serious complications. Urban planning must support safe and pleasurable physical activity, especially active commuting. Public education on the prevention and appropriate treatment of diabetes is essential, as self-care is an important element of clinical management, Reddy said. Also read: Have a weak gut? It may trigger Type 2 diabetes, obesity
The findings provide estimates of worldwide diabetes trends and the larger rise in diabetes prevalence in low-income and middle-income countries than in high-income countries, and the mostly flat trends in Europe (especially in northwestern Europe),is caused by several factors. First, adiposity, which is an important risk factor for diabetes, has increased substantially more, and is now higher, in many low-income and middle-income countries than in continental Europe and high-income Asia Pacific countries, especially in women. Also see: Genetic link found between type 2 diabetes and mental disorders
Prof. Majid Ezzati, senior author from Imperial College London, said that the rates of diabetes are rising quickly in China, India and other low- and middle-income countries. As a result of rise in prevalence and population growth and ageing, the number of people with diabetes in India has risen from 11.9 million in 1980 to 64.5 million in 2014.