8% of people in Guj are diabetic, 10.5% prediabetic: ICMR study

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A recent study by a team from the Indian Council of Medical Research (Icmr) found that 8.1% of those surveyed inGujarat, as part of the nationwide survey, were found to be diabetic, and 10.5% were prediabetic.

The findings were part of the recently-published ‘Metabolic non-communicable disease Health report of India: the ICMR-INDIAB national cross-sectional study’ or ICMR-INDIAB-17 byRanjit Mohan Anjanaand others. The study was published in The Lancet’s Diabetes and Endocrinology journal.

The findings indicated that prevalence of hypertension was 28.5%, general obesity 23.5% and abdominal obesity 30.6% in Gujarat. All these were found to be lower than the national Average. An earlier

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study from 2017 covering several Indian states including Gujarat by the same team had found prevalence of diabetes to be 7%, a slight increase of 1.1 Percentage points in six years.

City-based experts said that medical practice indicates much higher prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) than the survey’s numbers. They said the disparity may be due to the methodology employed.