Diabetes at 42: normal weight, no sweet tooth. How?

"Mujhe kaise ho gaya?" is the question at every such dinner.

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"But I am not overweight."

At the same BMI, Indians tend to carry more belly fat and more insulin resistance than white Caucasians.

Why Indians get it earlier

Type 2 in Indians

At least a decade earlier

than in other major ethnic groups. So screening starts earlier and looks wider than a weight check.

The risk list

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Over 30

Everyone over 30, and earlier with any risk factor. More than half of patients have no symptoms at all.

The numbers on your report

Indian adults aged 20 and over

About one adult in four has one or the other. Fieldwork ran 2008 to 2020.

How common is it?

So, how did he get it?

Weight is only part of it.

Where the weight sits, and who else in the family has it, matter as much. The check is a blood test, not the mirror.

The risk list

Can a walk and a smaller rice katori lower the risk?

One Indian trial followed 531 adults with raised sugar. The article has what it found.

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