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 …
Millets are small grained, annual, warm weather cereals that includes 8000 species within 600 genera, of which only 35 species comprising 20 genera have been domesticated. Finger millet is grown as an important food crop in many developing countries of the tropical region; mainly in Africa and Asia. It is …
Obesity has recently emerged as a major global health problem. According to World Health Organization estimates, ≈1.6 billion adults worldwide were overweight (body mass index [BMI] ≥25 kg/m2) and at least 400 million were obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) in 2005, numbers that are expected to reach 2.3 billion and 700 …
Obesity kills, everyone knows that. But is it possible that we've been looking at the problem in the wrong way? It seems getting fatter may be part of your body's defence against the worst effects of unhealthy eating, rather than their direct cause.
'In addition to HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, prevention of diabetes should also be considered as the national mission. The Central government should make budgetary allocations for diabetes, which would include research, management and subsidised cost for treatment of diabetes,' said Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, CMD, Biocon Ltd on Thursday. Home Guards Commandant …
Even though India is the diabetes capital of the world, few use medical devices for self-monitoring of blood glucose levels. Patients of type 1 diabetes, which is genetic, require regular monitoring. Ninety-nine per cent diabetics in India are of the type 2 variety, which is controlled by using a combination …
Population studies suggest that persons with diabetes are more sensitive to the effects of particulate matter (PM) air pollution. However, the biological mechanisms of a possible prothrombotic effect underlying this enhanced susceptibility remain largely unknown. The authors hypothesized that exposure to PM causes prothrombotic changes in persons with diabetes, possibly …
The objective of the study was to study the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention model of nutrition and lifestyle education on behavior modification, anthropometry and metabolic risk profile of urban Asian-Indian adolescents in North India.
The health ministry is planning to screen all people aged 30-40 in rural areas for lifestyle diseases like diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday. Noting that there has been an increase in cases of noncommunicable diseases like cancer, cardio-vascular diseases and diabetes, Mr Azad at the …
This study from the Prospective Studies Collaboration (PSC) is a meta-analysis of individual-level information shared by investigators of 57 primary prospective cohort studies to examine the relationship of body-mass index (BMI) with overall and cause-specific mortality.
A commonly used drug to treat Type II diabetes, Byetta, has come under the scanner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which says that it causes kidney problems including kidney failure in patients. Byetta is usually recommended in cases where blood sugar levels and obesity both are unmanageable. …
Anita Joshua NEW DELHI: The Government is planning to make diabetes and hypertension check-ups mandatory for rural India. This was disclosed here on Sunday by Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad while addressing the SAARC Diabetes Conference. Formulating scheme According to Mr. Azad, his ministry was …
FAT in the liver is the new marker for obesity-related complications such as diabetes, heart diseases and strokes. People trying to reduce belly fat to avoid these diseases will have to rethink their lifestyle. The finding is good news for metabolic scientists who have hypothesized for long that liver fat …
Who were the first Indians? Were they the chocolate-hued Dravidian southerners or the dark-skinned tribals that inhabit East India and the Andaman islands? Was the relatively fair Indo-European population of the North the original settler? Or did the Mongoloid-featured Tibetan-Burmans beat the rest to it? When and how did the …
Breathing polluted air for even two hours can boost blood pressure, potentially raising the risk of cardiovascular disease in those exposed to smog, a new study suggests. Although the increase may not mean much for healthy people, "this small increase may actually be able to a trigger a heart attack …
In Talks With GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer & Novartis Mohit Bhalla ET NOW WOCKHARDT, a troubled drugmaker with huge debts, is in talks with GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Novartis to sign a deal that would give marketing and research rights of its diabetes drugs under development to one of the global companies, two …
Ramya Kannan CHENNAI: Here is some sobering news for the country: Diabetes is no longer a disease of the affluent urban residents. Clearly it is creeping up on rural and low-income groups as well. A couple of recently-concluded studies have contributed to this sobering view of the epidemic. A study …
