On 18 Nov 2011 01:19:29 GMT
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> Two looks at diabetes prevalence in india and the united states.
>
> Diagnosed in india:
> AEpidemiology of type 2 diabetes: Indian scenario
>
> http://www.icmr.nic.in/ijmr/2007/march/0302.pdf.Qa
>
> population based study was conducted in six metropolitan cities across
> India and recruited 11,216 subjects aged 20 yr and above
> representative of
> all socio-economic strata13. An oral glucose tolerance test was done
> using
> capillary glucose and diabetes was defined using the WHO criteria14.
> The study reported that the age standardized prevalence of type 2
> diabetes was
> 12.1 per cent. This study also revealed that the prevalence in the
> southern
> part of India to be higher-13.5 per cent in Chennai, 12.4 per cent, in
> Bangalore, and 16.6 per cent Hyderabad; compared to eastern India
> (Kolkatta), 11.7 per cent; northern India (New Delhi), 11.6 per cent;
> and
> western India (Mumbai), 9.3 per cent. The study also suggested that
> there
> was a large pool of subjects with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT),
> 14 per
> cent with a high risk of conversion to diabetes.

According to the International Diabetes Federation website which
I linked, the age-adjusted prevalence for all of India was 9.2
percent. This is not the same as the prevalence for a few selected
urban areas. The IDF website also shows the prevalence of IGT
for India to be 3.0 percent. This is not the same as a large pool
of subjects, 14 percent of which have a high risk of conversion.

You are quoting nonsense statistics.

> Diabetes Statistics - American Diabetes Association
>
> http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-bas...es-statistics/
>
> Data from the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet (released Jan. 26,
> 2011) Total prevalence of diabetes
>
> Total: 25.8 million children and adults in the United States--8.3%
> of the population--have diabetes.
>
> Diagnosed: 18.8 million people
> diagnosed: 6.04%.

Here you have failed to mention the percentage in the US with impaired
glucose tolerance, because if you did it would only support the
assertion that India has a low rate. The IDF website puts the
incidence of IGT at 10.8 percent in the US. This is more than three
times the rate in India.

You have completely ignored the high rate of diabetes in Lebanon and
Saudia Arabia; this disproves your assertion that India has the
highest rate of diabetes in the world.

You also failed to comment on the fact that diabetes treatments cost
more than a hundred times as much per patient in the US as compared
to India.