Prevalence of Diabetes in South Asian Countries with special reference to India

Abstract

Diabetes is one of the non-communicable chronic diseases which is generally
characterized by high blood glucose level and its associated complications like hypertension,
renal failure and blindness. With largest number of diabetes patients in the world, India is
earning the dubious distinction of being termed as the “Diabetes capital of the World”. The
present paper focuses on the spatial pattern of incidences of diabetes in Indiaas compared to
top ten diabetic nationsincluding south Asian nations. In addition to this, paper also focuses
on the relationship between socio-economic factors and self-reported cases of diabetes. We
have attempted to explore the geographical variation in the prevalence of diabetes between
different states of India. In this paper researchers have made an attempted to reveal the
association between obesity and self-reported diabetes in the different states of India. The
analysis is based on data published by National Family Health Survey-III. The result shows
that older age group, male, higher educated and wealthy people appear to be at greatest risk
for diabetes. The data also reflects the substantial geographical controls in diabetes prevalence.
The study is having its strength due to the fact of large nationally representative survey to
assess the socio-economic condition of patient and conspicuous pattern of this disease