Review: Type 2 diabetes in India: regional disparities:

Type 2 diabetes mellitus epidemic in India is a result of societal influences and changing lifestyles. Diabetes has been known in India for centuries as a disease of the affluent class. Epidemiological studies in the 1960's and 1970's using random and post-load blood glucose estimations reported diabetes prevalence varying from 1—4% in urban populations and 1—2% in rural populations. More standardised epidemiological studies since the 1990's reported prevalence rates that vary from 5—15% among urban populations, 4—6% in semi-urban populations and 2—5% in rural populations with large location-based disparities within urban and rural populations. There is a significantly increasing trend in urban populations (exponential trend R2=0.744) while among rural populations the prevalence is increasing at a slower rate (R2=0.289). At the turn of this century diabetes in adult urban Indian populations varies from a low of 5.4% in a northern state to a high of 12.3—15.5% in Chennai, South India, and 12.3—16.8% in Jai...

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