Key Points
An estimated 101.3 million people in the country could be diabetic and another 136 million in the pre-diabetic stage, a cross-section study, carried out between 2008 amd 2020 across the country, has found...
According to the current estimate, about 11% of the countrys population is already diabetic with urban India accounting for 16.4% while in the rural population the prevalence is 8.9%...
Around 15.4% of the urban population and 15.2% of rural India are in the pre-diabetic stage..
The estimation is based on an analysis of the prevalence of general obesity; abdominal obesity; hypertension and hypercholestrolemia (presence of bad cholesterol), all of which were found to be higher among the urban population as compared to the rural population...
The report, Metabolic non-communicable disease health report of India: the ICMR-INDAB national cross-sectional study (ICMR-INDAB-17), was published in the June edition of Lancet Diabetes Endocrinologyreleased on Thursday..
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