High prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in India: National Urban Diabetes Survey

By A. Ramachandran, C. Snehalatha, A. Kapur, V. Vijay, V. Mohan, A. Das, P. Rao, C. Yajnik, K. Prasanna Kumar, Jyotsna Nair and 1 more. Diabetologia, 2001

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1. A. Ramachandran
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Citations in the corpus

• The nutrition transition to 2030. Why developing countries are likely to bear the major burden (2005, background): “The prevalence of NIDDM in urban Indian adults has increased from 12% in 2000 ( Ramachandran et al., 2001 ).”
• Prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance) in urban and rural India: Phase I results of the Indian Council of Medical Research–INdia DIABetes (ICMR–INDIAB) study (2011, background): “The National Urban Diabetes Survey [6] showed an overall age-standardised prevalence of 12.”
• The Indian Diabetes Prevention Programme shows that lifestyle modification and metformin prevent type 2 diabetes in Asian Indian subjects with impaired glucose tolerance (IDPP-1) (2006, methodology): “During the second test, details of demography, age, sex, medical history, family history of diabetes, anthropometric measurements (including height, weight, waist circumference and percentage body fat using the impedance meter (Tanita TBF-611 Body Fat Monitor; Syscon Instruments, Bangalore, India), ”