India Is Home to 77 million Diabetes Patients

What is diabetes?

• Diabetes is a Chronic Health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy.

How Diabetes Impacts us?

• Most of the food you eat is broken down into sugar and released into your bloodstream.
• When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin.
• Insulin acts like a key to let the blood sugar into your body's cells for use as energy.
• If you have diabetes, your body either does not make enough insulin or can't use the insulin it makes as well as it should.
• When there isn't enough insulin or cells stop responding to insulin, too much blood sugar stays in your bloodstream.
• overtime, that can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, vision loss, and kidney disease.

Are there types of Diabetes?

• Type 1 diabetes is thought to be caused by an autoimmune reaction that stops your body from making insulin.
• Type 2 diabetes your body does not use insulin well and can't keep blood sugar at normal levels. about 90% of people with diabetes have type 2.

Incidence of Diabetes in India

• India continues to become to second- largest number of adults with diabetes worldwide, with 77 million adults with diabetes in the 20-79 years group.
• There is an increasing trend in the cases of diabetes due to increase in stress and anxiety because of the following reasons:
• Rapid urbanization
• Demographic transition
• Lifestyle modifications.