Report by the Central Pollution Control Board in the matter of In re: News item appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023 titled “Delhi, Chennai studies hint at pollution link to diabetes” dated 14/12/2023. CPCB has duly identified 131 cities exceeding National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) consecutively for five …
A recent survey conducted across 500 families in Delhi has brought to the fore that women have to be educated about diabetes in order to impede it from multiplying and mounting. “Women should be the nodal point of all awareness and prevention campaigns as their role is indispensable when it …
AHMEDABAD: Nearly 75% of diabetics have uncontrolled sugar levels which may be wreaking havoc with the functioning of their vital organs like kidney and heart and adversely affecting their nerve function, rendering them vulnerable to retinopathy and neuropathy, a research by the Study of India's Twin Epidemic (SITE) has found. …
One in every ten Sri Lankans suffers from diabetes, which has become the leading cause of blindness, renal failure, lower limb amputation, strokes and heart diseases. Nearly 3.8 million people around the world die due to diabetes annually, Professor Chandrika Wijeratne said. Speaking at a media conference on World Diabetes …
Even as modern medicine practices have elaborate programmes for diabetes control and prevention programmes with diet charts and exercises, there is but little focus on the crucial component of stress, which is considered an important contributing factor for diabetes, said Harish Kumar, head of endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. …
Mumbai: One in every five Indian adults living in urban cities suffers not only from hypertension but also diabetes. In Maharashtra, one in three persons is struck by the twin epidemic. These are some of the highlights of India’s largest clinic-based survey to assess the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension. …
THE UN General Assembly has adopted a watered-down political declaration to reduce the burden of chronic lifestyle diseases. The event signals the beginning of a larger fight between industry and health policy makers. The resolution was passed at a summit ahead of the General Assembly in New York on September …
Using The ‘Dolly Method’ To Make Customized Human Stems Cells Can Help Fight Major Diseases London: For the first time, scientists have created human embryos from slivers of skin, a feat they say has brought closer the day when babies are cloned in the lab. In experiments that mirror the …
Foot Ulcers Found In 41% Upper-Middle-Class Patients Ahmedabad: A study has negated the common belief that only poor diabetics — who do not wear proper footwear — end up getting ulcers or infection in their feet. If not attended to in time, that complication necessitates amputation. It has been found …
For once, the people of Chandigarh would regret earning more. As a latest study by doctors from prestigious institutes in the country including PGIMER has revealed a high prevalence of diabetes among the rich in the city. The study, published in a prestigious medical journal called Diabetologia, reveals that the …
New figures for diabetes prevalence in India indicate that the epidemic is progressing rapidly across the nation, reaching a total of 62.4 million persons with diabetes in 2011. Phase one results of the Indian Council of Medical Research – India Diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB) Study have provided data from three States and …
There is growing awareness and concern about the large and escalating burden of chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) not just from the public health perspective but also from the economic one. The social burdens associated with the four diseases – cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases – include prolonged …
At his weekly gentleman’s club in a village not far from the Kenyan capital, Francis Marimbe Mwathi gathers his friends to dine on “the meat of men”. Washed down with a few beers, it is hardly the health-conscious diet his doctors advise. Mr Mwathi has diabetes. Already his eyesight is …
Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body does not produce enough insulin, or cells to not respond to insulin that is produced. Type 2 diabetes refers to the condition in which the cells do not respond to insulin, sometimes known as adult-onset diabetes. A new study from the …
Global leaders are preparing to meet in New York on September 19 and 20 to chart the way forward to tackle noncommunicable diseases, the number one killer in the world. On the stealth, the pharma and food industries and some rich countries are also at work to weaken the initiative. …
South-East Asia Region Health Ministers meet in Jaipur Meetings of the Health Ministers of South-East Asian Region (SEAR) and the 64{+t}{+h}session of the regional committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) opened here on Tuesday with a call to the world to wake up to the challenges posed by overuse …
Air pollution may promote type 2 diabetes by increasing adipose inflammation and insulin resistance. This study examined the relation between long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and type 2 diabetes prevalence among 50- to 75-year-old subjects living in Westfriesland, the Netherlands.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a global health and developmental emergency, as they cause premature deaths, exacerbate poverty and threaten national economies. In 2008, they were the top killers in the South-East Asia region, causing 7.9 million deaths; the number of deaths is expected to increase by 21% over the next …
A comprehensive strategy for the prevention and control of NCDs must integrate public health actions to minimize risk factor exposure at the level of the population and reduce risk at the level of individuals at high risk. Such a combination of the population approach and the high risk approach is …
