44L people in state have diabetes: Study

(Source: The Times of India, 31 January 2011)
The country's most ambitious medical study to count the number of people with diabetes has found 44 lakh people with the condition in Maharashtra. The study's first phase also found another 69 lakh people with pre-diabetes in the state. Roughly, Maharashtra has as many people with diabetes as Mumbai's population of 1.2 million during the 2001 census. India has been infamously called the world's diabetes capital on the basis of sporadic surveys conducted in various cities. This study, INDIAB, started two years under the support of the Indian Council for Medical Research ( ICMR) by the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and regional collaborators. Read more