ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND RESEARCH

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YASH DIABETES SPECIALITIES CENTRE PVT. LTD. 

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The Country with the highest number of people with diabetes in the entire world is INDIA.

According to WHO, in India

Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT)

Pre diabetes condition which is more common than diabetes. IGT also carries significant health risks.

Cardiovascular death rates for people with IGT are half way between healthy people and people with diabetes.

This alarming increase is expected to occur due to changing lifestyles, especially related to diet, stress and lack of exercise.

Who are at the risk of developing diabetes?

* Children and near relatives of the people with diabetes

* Eating fast, fatty, refined food

* Sedentary life

* Overweight

* Stressful life

* History of repeated abortions/delivery of large baby or malformed baby

* Any person with or even without any symptoms, after the age of 30

Complications to Human Body due to diabetes

60% of people admitted in the ICCU & undergoing Coronary Angiography/CABG are diabetic

65% of people admitted in ICU are diabetic

75% of all diabetes related deaths are associated with cardiovascular disease

Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness in adults

40% of all people requiring dialysis and kidney transplant are diabetic

60%-70% of people with diabetes has mild to severe forms of nerve damage

Leading cause of non traumatic lower limb amputation

People with diabetes are twice as likely to develop cataracts and glucoma than those without diabetes

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