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DIABETICS IN INDIA:CAUSES AND

PREVENTION
SHREYAS SAI.R(3122 21 3002 096)
SHYAM SUNDAR.D(3122 21 3002 098)
SIVARANJANI.S(3122 21 3002 099)
NAREN KUMAR.S.A(3122 21 3002 304)
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
• Perform a case study to understand the real
cause of diabetics in the Indian population.
Analyse to derive the solution to eradicate
diabetics
 OBJECTIVES
The objective of our case study is:
 To understand what is Diabetes
 To know types of Diabetes
 To analyze the cause of Diabetes in Indian Population
 The best way of treating diabetes
 To control and to prevent diabetes
 OUTLINE

Introduction to Diabetes and its Types

Statistics of Diabetics

Understanding the real cause

Diagnosis Methods

Looking at Prevalent Solutions

Discussion Phase
 INTRODUCTION

 Diabetes is the most common disease of the current population .

 Diabetes is the lack of blood glucose level control due to
metabolic factors and lack of production of insulin.
 Basically there are two types of 2 diabetes:

Type 1 : It’s a chronic autoimmune disease associated with the

selective destruction of insulin producing pancreatic β cells.
Type 2 : caused by insulin resistance and the pancreas slowly making
the ability to secrete insulin.
STATISTICS OF DIABETICS IN
INDIA
 AN OVERVIEW
• India has the second-highest total population in the
world at more than 1.3 billion people.
• The International Diabetes Federation estimated
that 72.9 million adults in India were living with
diabetes in 2017.
• A case study in 2017 also found that diabetics
prevalence was higher in urban areas compared to
rural areas.
• Most of this increase is in case of type 2 diabetes
which is caused by the resistance of the body to
insulin.

• Type 1 diabetes has increased by about 3 to 5

percent each year in India, according to 2015
research.

• The IDF has estimated that there will be 134

million people in India with both the types of
Diabetes
CAUSES
 TYPE-1
• When your immune system, the body's
defence against infection, attacks and kills the
insulin-producing beta cells of your pancreas,
type 1 diabetes develops.
• Scientists hypothesize that type 1 diabetes is
brought on by genes and other environmental
triggers like viruses.
 TYPE-2

• Type 2 , the most common form of diabetes in

India, is caused by several factors.
 PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES AND
OBESITY
• One of the most common reasons is the
physiological differences found in India.
• People of Indian ancestry generally tend to have
higher fat-to-muscle ratios.
• When there is more muscle than fat in the body,
insulin stays for much longer.
• These physiological conditions can occur due to
genes or can show up as a result of living an
unhealthy lifestyle.
PROCESSED FOOD
• Tons and Tons of processed food is being
consumed every day.
• People, especially children prefer fatty sugary
snacks over healthy alternatives because it is
cheap and readily available.
• Parents are responsible for this as they
encourage their children in doing so.
 STRESS
• Several Qualitative studies on diabetes have
reported that stress is also one of the reasons
for diabetes.
• Social stress in India is mostly common in
lower-income groups in India.
• People are burdened with several
responsibilities that lead to stress
 OTHER REASONS

• Lack of access to proper healthcare systems in

certain regions of India.
• Shifting farming patterns , growing
commercially viable crops with less nutrients,
and consuming polished white rice instead of
healthy traditional alternatives.
• Several Genetic Factors.
 DIAGNOSIS
SYMPTOMS
• Some of the symptoms of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are:
• Feeling more thirsty than usual.
• Urinating often.
• Losing weight without trying.
• Presence of ketones in the urine. Ketones are a byproduct of the breakdown
of muscle and fat that happens when there's not enough available insulin.
• Feeling tired and weak.
• Feeling irritable or having other mood changes.
• Having blurry vision.
• Having slow-healing sores.
• Getting a lot of infections, such as gum, skin and vaginal infections.
 DIAGNOSIS METHODS
A1C test for glycated haemoglobin.
• This blood test, which does not call for prolonged
fasting, reveals your average blood sugar level
over the previous two to three months.
• Calculates the proportion of blood sugar that is
bonded to haemoglobin, the protein that carries
oxygen in red blood cells.
• The more haemoglobin with sugar linked you
have, the higher your blood sugar levels will be.
Fasting blood sugar test.
• A blood sample will be taken after fasting
overnight.
Oral glucose tolerance test. 
• For this test, you fast overnight. Then, the
fasting blood sugar level is measured.
• Then you drink a sugary liquid, and blood
sugar levels are tested regularly for the next
two hours.