Diabetes in India

[5] A 2004 study suggests that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Indians may be due to environmental and lifestyle changes resulting from industrialization and migration to urban environment from rural.

[6] This lifestyle change has led to the increased consumption of energy intake from animal foods in Asian populations.

According to the IDF estimates, India has the second highest number of children with type 1 diabetes after the United States.

[16][17] Over the past three decades, the burden of diabetes in terms of deaths and Disability-adjusted life year (DALYs) has more than doubled in India.

According to a survey conducted in 2016, the High body mass index (BMI) appeared to be the major risk factor contributing to 36% of diabetes DALYs.

[15] It aims to set up outreach camps for opportunistic screening at all levels in the health care delivery system for early detection of diabetes, among other illnesses.

In one such program, SMS was used to motivate people with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) to follow lifestyle modification (LSM).

It concluded that LSM and Met were cost-effective interventions for preventing diabetes among high-risk individuals in India and other developing countries.

[23] The National Diabetes Control Program was initiated in 1987 in some districts of Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, and Karnataka.