Did You Know? Reference: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353991365_The_Burden_of_Non-communicable_Diseases_and_Diabetic_Retinopathy Global Diabetes Statistics Approximately 80% of adult diabetic cases occur in low-income and middle-income countries. 1 In 2021, 537 million adults had diabetes worldwide. 2 This fact is especially noteworthy considering that 2007 data predicted that the globe wouldn’t reach 380 million cases until 2025. 3 In 2019, 1.5 million patients died as a direct result of their diabetes. 4 The risk of death from a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack, heart failure, or stroke increases twofold for adults with type 2 diabetes. 5 China, India, and the United States have the highest prevalence of diabetes, with 89.5 million, 67.8 million, and 30.7 million, respectively. 6 760 billion dollars were spent on diabetes globally in 2019, and this number is expected to increase to 825 billion by 2030. 7 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(21)00089-1/fulltext https://diabetesatlas.org/ https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/4/6/1207 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diabetes https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/01/10/most-us-adults-with-diabetes-arent-managing-the-risks-for-heart-disease https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71908-9 https://www.diabetesresearchclinicalpractice.com/article/S0168-8227(20)30138-8/fulltex Publications Is gestational diabetes mellitus in lean women a distinct entity warranting a modified management approach? – 2024 Associations of the glycaemic index and the glycaemic load with risk of type 2 diabetes in 127594 people from 20 countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study - 2024 Global inequity in diabetes - 2023 Polygenic scores of diabetes-related traits in subgroups of type 2 diabetes in India: a cohort study - 2023 An Atypical Form Of Diabetes Among Individuals With Low BMI – 2022 Understanding the pathogenesis of lean non-autoimmune diabetes in an African population with newly diagnosed diabetes – 2022 Body mass index and diabetes risk in fifty-seven low- and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative individual-level data – 2021 Poor In Utero Growth, and Reduced β-Cell Compensation and High Fasting Glucose From Childhood, Are Harbingers of Glucose Intolerance in Young Indians - 2021 Diabetes prevalence and its relationship with education, wealth, and BMI in 29 low- And middle-income countries. - 2020 Prevalence and clinical characteristics of individuals with newly detected lean diabetes in Tamil Nadu, South India – A community-based cross-sectional study – 2019 Disease progression and treatment response in data-driven subgroups of type 2 diabetes compared with models based on simple clinical features: an analysis using clinical trial data - 2019 Atypical forms of diabetes mellitus in Africans and other non-European ethnic populations in low-middle income countries: a systematic literature review - 2019 The Elevated Susceptibility to Diabetes in India: An Evolutionary Perspective – 2016 Lean diabetes mellitus: An emerging entity in the era of obesity - 2015 Diabetes in rural individuals of different nutritional status and the alarming situation demands focus more on its under-nutrition association. – 2015
