ICMR says 100 million plus in India now diabetic, 315 million suffer from hypertension
A whopping 315 million people in India suffer from hypertension, 101 million with diabetes, according to an alarming study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
The ICMR-India Diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB) study is based on a survey of 1,13,043 people -- 33,537 urban and 79,506 rural populace -- aged 20 years and older, between 2008 and 2020. Pic: Reuters