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Over 100 million diabetic cases in India, up by 44 percent in 4 Years: ICMR Study - Video
Overview
A whopping 315 million people in India suffer from hypertension, 101 million with diabetes, according to an alarming study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
The study also showed that 136 million Indians are pre-diabetic, 213 million people live with high cholesterol, 185 million suffer from high LDL cholesterol or bad cholesterol, while 254 million live with generalised obesity and 351 million have abdominal obesity.
Reference:
Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Ranjit Unnikrishnan, Mohan Deepa, Rajendra Pradeepa, Metabolic non-communicable disease health report of India: the ICMR-INDIAB national cross-sectional study (ICMR-INDIAB-17), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(23)00119-5