Shitdoos just keep getting sicker! Diabetes spreading in India
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diabetics, now 31.7 million, is likely to touch 80 million by 2030, a survey
has claimed.
A survey conducted by Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India
(RSSDI) claimed India has the dubious distinction of being home to maximum
number of diabetics.
"What is alarming is that there is an estimated possibility of increase in
diabetic population in India by 151 per cent whereas the same globally would
be 115 per cent," RSSDI said here today in connection with its annual
conference on "Ways to check spread of diabetes in India".
Today there are more than 240 million diabetics across the world and the
figure is set to cross 300 million by 2030, it said.
"It is this global scare of diabetes epidemic, especially in nations like
India, China and the US, that prompted the UN General Assembly on December
30, 2006, to pass landmark resolution recognising diabetes as a chronic,
debilitating and costly disease," the RSSDI said.
It said initial figures from the study conducted among 2,160 Kolkata Police
personnel (aged between 20 and 60 year) puts the prevalence at 11.5 per cent
which is much more than the existing global prevalence.
"Additionally, according to the study, over six per cent subjects had
impaired fasting glycemia, which is a pre-diabetic state and these
individuals are at risk of developing the disease in future," it said.