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Chennai groups manage India's largest diabetes project
Monday, 02 September 2002, 19:30 IST |
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CHENNAI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has named two Chennai-based diabetes research organisations to jointly conduct the country's largest diabetic study project.
Backed by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Chennai Urban Population Study (CUPS) II was launched here over the weekend. CUPS-I is already complete.
India has around 23 million diabetic people in a population of one billion. The figure is estimated to go up to 57 million by 2025. To fight the ailment, insulin worth 
570 billion would be used every year, experts say.
The Madras Diabetic Research Foundation and the M.V. Diabetes Specialities Centre are two of the WHO's five 'sentinel sites' in India to monitor diabetes over 10 years. They will conduct the study.
"The project is a part of WHO surveillance plan for non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in developing countries," said foundation director V. Mohan. "Awareness levels are appallingly low."
CUPS-II will generate data to plan programmes for diabetes reduction.
Conducted on 26,000 people who were more than 20 years old, CUPS-I showed that at least 12 per cent of them had diabetes. Around half of the affected people suffered from hypertension but did not even know that they had the disease.
Some 22 per cent also had high blood pressure. One in every 10 residents in Chennai is diabetic, it showed.
CUPS-II would be the country's largest study on diabetes. It would survey 26,000 people in 51 wards of the city.
The American Diabetes Association would provide speciality training to 800 doctors from all over the country at the foundation for this project.
The U.S. National Institute of Health has offered the foundation its facilities to train doctors and researchers in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Source: IANS
570 billion would be used every year, experts say.
The Madras Diabetic Research Foundation and the M.V. Diabetes Specialities Centre are two of the WHO's five 'sentinel sites' in India to monitor diabetes over 10 years. They will conduct the study.
"The project is a part of WHO surveillance plan for non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in developing countries," said foundation director V. Mohan. "Awareness levels are appallingly low."
CUPS-II will generate data to plan programmes for diabetes reduction.
Conducted on 26,000 people who were more than 20 years old, CUPS-I showed that at least 12 per cent of them had diabetes. Around half of the affected people suffered from hypertension but did not even know that they had the disease.
Some 22 per cent also had high blood pressure. One in every 10 residents in Chennai is diabetic, it showed.
CUPS-II would be the country's largest study on diabetes. It would survey 26,000 people in 51 wards of the city.
The American Diabetes Association would provide speciality training to 800 doctors from all over the country at the foundation for this project.
The U.S. National Institute of Health has offered the foundation its facilities to train doctors and researchers in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Source: IANS