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 …
Postprandial hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, and insulin resistance increase the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease mortality. Postprandial hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia also occur in metabolically healthy subjects consuming high-carbohydrate diets particularly after evening meals and when carbohydrate loads follow acute exercise. We hypothesized the involvement of dietary carbohydrate load, …
Obese people risk getting diagnosed with heart disease, diabetes, inflammation and other disorders, if they are discriminated in society, finds a study conducted by an Indian-origin researcher. The study suggested that those who experienced weight discrimination over a 10-year period had twice the risk of high allostatic load -- the …
Progressive burden of diabetes mellitus is a major concern in India. Data on the predictors of poor glycemic control among diabetics are scanty. A population-based cross-sectional study nested in an urban cohort was thus conducted in West Bengal, India to determine the burden and correlates of total and uncontrolled abnormalities …
Dental health scenario in India is "alarming" and excessive consumption of sugary drinks and junk food is making matters worse as high sugar eating habit is causing "addiction" and dental ailments, doctors have cautioned. "About 80-90 per cent of the adult population in the country suffers from mild gingivitis (gum …
Dementia is a major global public health crisis that is expected to grow as people live longer. In a recent study, experts have created a shortlist of environmental factors that may possibly contribute to our risk of developing dementia. The list includes exposure to air pollution and a lack of …
A pan-India study conducted by Pune doctors, members of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) and the advances of research in obesity (ARIO) has revealed that more than 50 per cent of children between 13 and 17 years of age were prone to develop diabetes and obesity …
Taxing sugary drinks can lower consumption and reduce obesity, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay, says a new WHO report. Fiscal policies that lead to at least a 20% increase in the retail price of sugary drinks would result in proportional reductions in consumption of such products, according to the …
Non-fatal outcomes of disease and injury increasingly detract from the ability of the world’s population to live in full health, a trend largely attributable to an epidemiological transition in many countries from causes aff ecting children, to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) more common in adults. For the Global Burden of Diseases, …
By 2025, India will have over 17 million obese children and stand second among 184 countries where the number of obese children are concerned, says this new study published in the journal Paediatric Obesity. Member states of the World Health Organization have adopted resolutions aiming to achieve ‘no increase on …
An alarming report by Indus Health Plus has pointed out that 35 – 40 percent of working population in Delhi is suffering from hypertension and diabetes which leads to risk of heart diseases by 4 – 6 percent. The trend can be due to high sugar consumption as high sugar …
Exposure to air pollution, a new study finds, may increase glucose intolerance, a precursor of diabetes. German researchers found the effect particularly strong in people who are already considered prediabetic because of abnormally high blood sugar levels. The study, in Diabetes, used data on 2,944 people in and around Augsburg, …
A new study performed by researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, in collaboration with researchers at the German Center for Diabetes Research, has revealed that common levels of air pollution in homes notably increase the risk of developing insulin resistance as a pre-diabetic state of type 2 diabetes. air-pollution-insulinWhat this means …
Contrary to reports that heart disease is striking Indians earlier, a new study that examined the records of 15,000 patients from across North India has found that the mean age of developing acute coronary syndrome (an umbrella term for situations where blood flow to the heart muscle is suddenly stopped) …
While the link between lifestyle and genetic factors with diabetes is well established, researchers have now found that long-term exposure to higher levels of traffic-related air pollution may also put you at increased risk of developing the chronic condition. Exposure to air pollution increases the risk of developing insulin resistance …
According to a recent survey, 80 per cent of Delhi NCR residents are obese. In the year 2014, there were around 20 million obese women and 9.8 million obese men recorded in India alone. The figures published in the Lancet also stated that worldwide, the number rose from 105 million …
Identification of new adipokines that potentially link obesity to insulin resistance represents a major challenge. We recently showed that NOV/CCN3, a multifunctional matricellular protein, is synthesized and secreted by adipose tissue, with plasma levels highly correlated with BMI. NOV involvement in tissue repair, fibrotic and inflammatory diseases, and cancer has …
Recent findings of paradoxically high endemicity of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) among populations living in the Group of 20 (G20) countries could portend high rates of these diseases among patients with underlying non-communicable diseases (NCDs), with resultant co-morbidities. Original Source
On the eve of the demand for grants for the health and family welfare department, senior doctors have urged the state government to rein in healthcare cost by improving access to preventive care, rather than exhausting all its funds in diagnosis and treatment. The recommendation comes in the wake of …
Doctors and healthcare experts are pinning down hard evidence from a massive screening programme done by the Tamil Nadu government under the `Amma Arogya Thittam' to show how more than half the number of people in the state are obese, diabetic or hypertensive. "Earlier studies showed that a quarter of …
The aim of this work was to study the potential long-term impact of a 7.8 years intensified, multifactorial intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria in terms of gained years of life and years free from incident cardiovascular disease. Original Source
