Researchers found coexistence of diabetes & hypertension starts surging at 40, climbs until late 50s & then levels off around 70. Nearly one in 20 adults in study had both conditions.
Insulin initiation in India is often delayed due to fear of injections & pain, treatment complexity & adherence concerns. Awiqli promises to reduce no of injections from 365 a year to 52.
The study published in the journal BMC Medicine was led by researchers at the Queensland University of Technology and the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation.
1 in 5 Indian men now has elevated blood sugar; obesity across genders, shows latest National Family Health Survey. Unhealthy lifestyles spreading beyond cities, driving a silent metabolic epidemic.
The study finds specific genetic variants that predict how much weight a person will lose on taking weight loss drugs, & the severity of side effects they experience.
Study involving over 9,000 patients, published in The Lancet, found that one in four adults with Type 2 diabetes had significant liver scarring and one in twenty had probable cirrhosis.
The key question before us is simple: Whose interest should guide food policy in India? The credibility of India's food regulatory system depends on the answer to this question.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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