Diabetes disease is increasing rapidly in India, these three reasons are responsible; what are its symptoms?

News Topical, Digital Desk : Diabetes has become a common problem in India. Earlier this disease was seen only in the elderly, but now this disease is affecting younger people as well. There are many reasons behind diabetes. This disease is increasing due to obesity, poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle. Diabetes patients are at risk of many diseases.

This can lead to heart disease, kidney damage, nerve damage and loss of eyesight. But the sad thing is that in India, about 4 out of every 10 diabetes patients do not even know that they have this disease. This is not being said by us, but by a study published in Lancet Global Health.

Survey done on 57,810 people

Let us tell you that this study is based on a survey conducted on 57,810 people aged 45 years and above between 2017 and 2019. Research has found that 20% of people above 45 years of age in the country suffer from diabetes. It is almost the same in both men and women i.e. 20%.

These reasons are responsible

According to the report, cases of diabetes have been seen more in cities than in rural areas. Unhealthy lifestyle and bad eating habits can be responsible for this. Researchers have advised that such policies should be made which can prevent diabetes in people. It can be identified. If someone gets this disease, then it can be treated in a better way.

The disease of hypertension is on the rise

India  has the second highest number of diabetes  cases in the world among people aged 20 to 79. In the year 2019, about 3% of the total deaths in the country were due to diabetes. Experts say that the number of patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) is also increasing continuously. The risk of these two diseases can be prevented by easily getting medicines for them at the initial stage, but health facilities in rural areas are still weak.

Facilities visited at CHC-PHC

Researchers from ICMR, WHO and other institutions recently conducted a survey in 19 districts of seven states to find out whether community and primary health centres (CHC and PHC) are prepared to treat diabetes and high blood pressure.

medicine was also not available

The survey found that only 4 out of 10 sub-centres (SCs) were equipped to treat these diseases. The rest did not even have the necessary medicines. Nearly one-third of the 105 sub-centres lacked metformin (diabetes medicine) and almost half (45%) did not have amlodipine ( blood pressure  medicine) available.

Symptoms of diabetes

• feeling more thirsty
• Frequent urination
• Headache
• Blurred vision
• feeling tired
• Slow healing of an injury or wound
• Weight loss
• Slow bone growth
• Observing changes in skin and hair

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