Whoever said that type 2 diabetes is a disease of the western world? Well. It travelled across the ocean and made it to Asia - most especially in the urbanized parts where sedentary lifestyle and obesity, prevails.




In this part of the world, the estimated highest incidence of diabetes is in Indians (people from India).

The incidence of diabetes is rapidly increasing globally, and Asian Indians have the highest prevalence. An estimated 32 million Asian Indians have been diagnosed with this condition, and some experts expect this number to double over the next 30 years.

In a study published in the March issue of Diabetes, Mayo researchers examined whether Asian Indians have observable differences in the way their cells convert nutrient fuel to available energy and whether these differences may increase the risk for diabetes.

Read the report Why Is There Such A High Incidence Of Diabetes Among Asian Indians? for more details.

On a separate report: Major International Diabetes Study Does Not Confirm Increased Risk Of Death Reported By US Trial it has been found that there is no evidence pointing to increased risk of death among those patients receiving intensive treatment to lower blood glucose (sugar).

These findings contrast with those reported recently by the US National Heart Lung and Blood Institute suggesting that intensive glucose lowering treatment levels had increased the death rate among patients with diabetes recruited to the ACCORD trial.

ADVANCE was designed to answer two questions in patients with type 2 diabetes: first, does intensive treatment to lower blood pressure improve outcome; and second, does intensive treatment to reduce blood glucose improve outcome.

In September 2007, the ADVANCE Collaborative Group published evidence in The Lancet1 showing that the blood pressure lowering treatment had reduced the death rate among participants. In January 2008, the part of the study designed to assess the effects of the intensive treatment to reduce blood glucose was completed.

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