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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

India Heading for Diabetes Explosion, warns Global Meet

India leads the world in the looming epidemic of diabetes, the 20th annual World Diabetes Congress of the International Diabetic Federation (IDF) was told here on Monday.

In its annual report, the IDF said India currently has the highest number of 50.8 million people suffering from diabetes and the US with 26.8 million. The report projected 58.7 million diabetes cases in India by 2010 - almost 7 percent of its adult population.

Warning Indian policy makers, the report said, “Evidence suggests that in more affluent parts of the country, the rural prevalence is higher than in less affluent rural areas, indicating that increasing economic growth will raise diabetes prevalence in India even more than these possibly conservative estimates have indicated.”

Internet Search trends signal the same what IDF has said. Relative Web Search interest of the keyword "Diabetes" is more in India compared to other Countries.

US leads in search for the Diabetes keyword in 2009. But if we take the number of internet users, india lacks behind in the number of internet users compared to other countries. But popularity or the interest of the "Diabetes" keyword almost touching the popularity of US. This is alarming for India.



Below are some of the Top Searched Keywords related to Diabetes:

diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes, symptoms of diabetes, sugar, insulin, gestational diabetes, diabetic, diabetes treatment, diabetes symptoms, diabetes in india, diabetes diet, diabetes cure, remedies for diabetes, diabetes diet chart, symptoms of diabetes, thyroid, yoga for diabetes, diet for diabetes, blood pressure.

Regional Interest of Diabetes is more in the following Cities of India. 

Indore, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Delhi, Hyderabad, Surat, Bangalore, Pune, Mahape, Mangalore.

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