Researchers found more Indians were living with diabetes than previously estimated.
had estimated 77 million people suffering from diabetes, and nearly 25 million were pre-diabetics, at a higher risk of developing diabetes in near future.
"It is a ticking time bomb," Dr RM Anjana, lead author of the study and managing director at Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre,"If you have pre-diabetes, conversion to diabetes is very, very fast in our population; more than 60% of people with pre-diabetes end up converting to diabetes in the next five years," she said.
The decade-long study was conducted by the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation with the Indian Council of Medical Research and involved 113,000 participants over the age of 20 from every state in India. Data collected in 2008 was extrapolated for 2021 using demographics in the latest National Family Health Survey, the most comprehensive household survey of health and social indicators by the government.
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