Health experts give alarming facts on World Diabetes Day eve
With over 50 million Indians suffering from diabetes, the disease is a looming epidemic which will go out of control any time unless both patients and care providers take preventive measures, warn health experts on the eve of World Diabetes Day.
“India leads the world in the number of people suffering from diabetes and by 2030, nearly 9 per cent of the country’s population is likely to be affected from the disease,” said Dr Anoop Mishra, director of the department of diabetes and metabolic diseases at Fortis Hospitals.
“The most disturbing fact is that more and more children and youngsters are getting affected to the disease due to changing lifestyle, junk food, less physical work and stress,” Misra said.
Describing the impact of work-related stress on diabetics, chairman of Dr A Ramachandran’s Diabetes Hospitals in Chennai, A Ramachandran said, “Few days ago a businessman came to my clinic whose sugar level was nearly 600 mg/dl and after inquiry we found that he had been under a lot of stress recently as he had lost money in the stock market”.
“The 35-year-old businessman’s sugar level decreased drastically as soon as the stock market rebounded,” he said, cautioning “stress can cause or worsen many diseases and diabetes is one of them”.
“The treatment of diabetes and its associated complications is expensive since it is a chronic condition.
“And as the cost burden imposed by the disease is not only on the patients and his family but also on society as a whole so there is a need to spread awareness about preventive care,” Dr Anoop said.
Ramachandran also felt that “simple measures like daily and regular physical activity, maintaining optimum weight and cutting off extra calories with increased consumption of green vegetables and fruits are likely be potentially beneficial in preventing diabetes”.
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