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China overtakes India as diabetes capital

Kounteya Sinha, TNN, Mar 26, 2010, 03.12am IST

NEW DELHI: This is one top spot India won't mind losing out on. China is now the world's new diabetes capital -- a position held by India so far.

A population-based national study has found that 92.4 million adults in China are diabetic, more than double of what was estimated earlier. What's worse, nearly 150 million more Chinese adults are at a stage where they will become diabetic soon.

According to countrywide figures released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), in October 2009, China was estimated to have 43.2 million diabetics, compared to 50.8 million in India.

However, in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Thursday, based on a nationally representative sample of more than 46,000 people who were tested for diabetes in China, one in 10 Chinese adults were found to already have the disease while another 16% were on the verge of developing it.

The researchers calculated that about 50 million men and 42 million women have diabetes, and in most cases, the disease was undiagnosed, just like it is in India.

Dr David Whiting from IDF said this shows that the global burden of diabetes is far larger than previously estimated. "Around the world, diabetes is still largely underdiagnosed. In some poorer countries, 90% of people with diabetes are undiagnosed while even in high-income countries 30% may be undiagnosed," Dr Whiting said.

IDF, which tracks the global spread of diabetes, had said in October 2009 that the number in India is expected to go up from 50 million to a whopping 87 million -- 8.4% of the country's adult population -- by 2030.

The Chinese study, which tested people across 14 cities, revealed that one in 11 urban residents compared with one in eight in rural China had diabetes. Lead researcher Dr Yang Wenying from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing wrote, "The aging of population, urbanisation, nutritional changes, and decreasing levels of physical activity, with the epidemic of obesity, have probably contributed to this rapid increase."


China overtakes India as diabetes capital - India - The Times of India
 
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Is it not related to the world?

Its about china becoming No. 1 in world. read it.

:lol:Go ahead, enjoying this. BTW: There are many No.1 of india should be consered by you than this. By the way, could you tell me when 1INR = 45USD can become truth, you know I am playing FX. ORZ
 
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Slanging aside.

This is something that affects us all . I doubt if there is anyone amongst us who does not have some one close who does not suffer from diabetes. Wonder if it more prevalent amongst Asians as compared to the rest and if so why ?

Do we eat more sweets or is something wrong in our diet lack of exercise ?

Wonder if others could share their views on this.
 
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Slanging aside.

This is something that affects us all . I doubt if there is anyone amongst us who does not have some one close who does not suffer from diabetes. Wonder if it more prevalent amongst Asians as compared to the rest and if so why ?

Do we eat more sweets or is something wrong in our diet lack of exercise ?

Wonder if others could share their views on this.

diet as well as lack of exercise. in usa etc. people do their stuff themselves in India we hire people. so lack of physical work.
 
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i blame the parents giving their one kid whatever he/she wants to eat
 
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This is indeed a horrible alarm to the Chinese people!

This is all about life philosophy.

Remember there is an old saying in China that people can “survive in hardship, die in comfort.” This is precisely the case: people are dying in comfort!

I remember the same journal published an article about horrible smoking and lung cancer cases in China. I translated an excerpt of that into Chinese and posted in Tianyan and was deleted by mods: maybe because it annoys the patriots there.

But fact is a fact.

More worrisome: a poll asking the Chinese what they desire the most. They want more money, house, cars, … etc., In the top 10, nobody wants heath. http://brusques.blog.hexun.com/45962405_d.html (Maybe the design of the poll is questionable, though)

Without health, WTF the use of money and house?

When China was poor, the Chinese were derogatorily called “East Asia Sick Men”. Now they are becoming rich, will the "sick men" return? :taz: We’ll see.
 
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:lol: good progress by India over China.

And i hope if we have a transparent data collection system then India-Pakistan might top the chart just like other diseases such a TB, Polio and AIDS.

i am dead sure majority in India do not have access to such health facility so the figures might be somewhat different
 
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Slanging aside.

This is something that affects us all . I doubt if there is anyone amongst us who does not have some one close who does not suffer from diabetes. Wonder if it more prevalent amongst Asians as compared to the rest and if so why ?

Do we eat more sweets or is something wrong in our diet lack of exercise ?

Wonder if others could share their views on this.

The diabetic levels prescribed are based on results of Europe and

American ppl. In next 10 years, we Indians have a new scale.

Do u really believe 1 out of 10 person have a disorder?

Then its not the problem with ppl, its with the measuring scale.
 
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:lol: good progress by India over China.

And i hope if we have a transparent data collection system then India-Pakistan might top the chart just like other diseases such a TB, Polio and AIDS.

i am dead sure majority in India do not have access to such health facility so the figures might be somewhat different


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This is called troll.
 
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this is a dangerous call to awakening. excessive car driving, the business culture of inviting dinners and office jobs has lead diabetes and obesity to levels that will soon approach the US.
 
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