Dr Mohan’ s Diabetes Specialties Centre is a diabetes speciality chain founded in the year 1991 headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is one of India’ s leading diabetes care providers offering comprehensive services for diabetes patients. In an exclusive interaction with the Biovoice News, Dr V Mohan, Chairman and Chief Diabetologist, Dr Mohan ' s Diabetes Specialities Centre shared his insights on the diabetes scenario in India. Read on:
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Dr Mohan’ s Diabetes Specialties Centre is a diabetes speciality chain founded in the year 1991 headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is one of India’ s leading diabetes care providers offering comprehensive services for diabetes patients. In an exclusive interaction with the Biovoice News, Dr V Mohan, Chairman and Chief Diabetologist, Dr Mohan ' s Diabetes Specialities Centre shared his insights on the diabetes scenario in India. Read on:
BY RAHUL KOUL
How do you view the current diabetes prevalence scenario in the country? Are we closer to becoming the world ' s diabetes capital?
Currently India stands second in the world in the number of people suffering from diabetes.
China due to its larger population stands first. However India will overtake China soon for several reasons. Firstly India’ s population will exceed that of China in the next 10-15 years. Secondly, the demography of China shows that it consists mainly of older people, most of whom have already converted to diabetes. On the other hand, India has the highest youth population in the world and as this population grows older, the diabetes rates will grow very high.
From all these angles, it is almost definite that India will have the largest number of people with
34 BioVoiceNews | November 2017