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- Relationship to Diabetes
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India accounts for the largest number of people suffering from diabetes in the world, about 50.8 million, followed by China (43.2 million) and the United States (26.8 million), according to new figures released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). India continues to be the ?diabetes capital? of the world, and by 2030, nearly nine per cent of the country?s population is likely to be affected from the disease, warns the fourth edition of the World Diabetes Atlas, launched by the IDF at the 20th World Diabetes Congress in Montreal, Canada.
For years, researchers have painstakingly dissected this complicated disease caused by the destruction of insulin producing islet cells of the pancreas. Despite progress in understanding the underlying diseases mechanisms for diabetes, there is still a paucity of effective therapies.
Diabetes is actually a group of diseases characterised by abnormally high levels of the sugar glucose in the bloodstream. This excess glucose is responsible for most of the complications of diabetes, which includes blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, stroke, neuropathy, and amputations.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cit...s/2014/02/18/article2062370.ece1#.UwL4SPl_uAg
For years, researchers have painstakingly dissected this complicated disease caused by the destruction of insulin producing islet cells of the pancreas. Despite progress in understanding the underlying diseases mechanisms for diabetes, there is still a paucity of effective therapies.
Diabetes is actually a group of diseases characterised by abnormally high levels of the sugar glucose in the bloodstream. This excess glucose is responsible for most of the complications of diabetes, which includes blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, stroke, neuropathy, and amputations.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cit...s/2014/02/18/article2062370.ece1#.UwL4SPl_uAg