New Delhi: The latest guideline released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) shows the rise of diabetes cases by 150 percent in India. The health body for type-1 diabetes persons said that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disproportionately affected people with diabetes, exposing them to a high risk for severe illness and mortality.
ICMR in its guidelines said, “India is home to the world’s second-largest adult diabetes population and every sixth person with diabetes in the world is an Indian. The past three decades witnessed a 150 percent increase in the number of people with diabetes in the country. matter of immense concern is the progressive lowering of the age at which type 2 diabetes is being diagnosed, with the disease prevalence becoming apparent in the age group of 2534 years in both urban and rural areas.”
Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease characterized by insulin deficiency and hyperglycemia in people with underlying genetic susceptibility. The risk of Type 1 Diabetes is three percent, five percent, and eight percent, respectively, when the mother, father, and sibling have a disease history. Type 1 diabetes is thought to be caused by an autoimmune reaction, which destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin, called beta cells.
(Vinayak)