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Study Finds: Over 11 per cent Indians diabetic, 36 per cent have hypertension

According to data from a nationwide survey that was published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 11.4% of Indians have diabetes, while 35.5% of the population has hypertension.

The Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, in conjunction with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and other institutions, conducted a study that also revealed that India had a prevalence of generalized obesity and abdominal obesity of 28.6 and 39.5%, respectively.

Research Analysis

Based on a survey of 1,13,043 (almost 1.1akh) persons (33,537 urban and 79,506 rural citizens) in 31 states and Union Territories across the nation between 2008 and 2020, the results analyze the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) across the states.

The poll also revealed that 81.2% of Indians have dyslipidemia, which is an imbalance of lipids including cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), triglycerides, and high-density lipoprotein, along with 35.5% of persons having hypertension and 15.3% having pre-diabetes (HDL).

“Urban regions had higher rates of all metabolic NCDs than rural areas, except prediabetes.
The ratio of diabetes to prediabetes was frequently smaller than one in states with a lower human development index, according to the study’s researchers.

A three-level stratification based on geography, population size, and socioeconomic position of each state was used by the team, which also included researchers from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, to conduct the survey over several phases.

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“Diabetes and other metabolic NCDs are much more common than previously thought in India.
According to the study’s authors, the diabetes epidemic is stabilizing in the nation’s more developed states but is still growing in the majority of other states.

“Thus, there are serious implications for the nation, warranting urgent state-specific policies and interventions to arrest the rapidly rising epidemic of metabolic NCDs in India,” they said.

Source PTI

Rivanshi Rakhrai

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