- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
India is facing an epidemic of diabetes and high blood pressure, often called “silent killers” because they lead to heart disease, said a report Monday involving more than 1.3 million people. The rate of diabetes in India is over six percent, while around one quarter of people have high blood pressure, said the first nationally representative figures on the topic, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. The rates of diabetes and hypertension were particularly high among middle-aged and elderly people. While these rates are lower than the United States and China, experts say a…
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