Sivasankaran Subhashini

TL;DR: Age, male sex, family history of diabetes, urban residence, abdominal obesity, generalised obesity, hypertension and income status were significantly associated with diabetes and prediabetes in India.

TL;DR: Asian Indians have one of the highest incidence rates of diabetes, with rapid conversion from normoglycemia to dysglycemia, and public health interventions should target modifiable risk factors to slow down the diabetes epidemic in this population.

TL;DR: The DEMR helps track diabetes care and is a valuable tool for research, and prevalence of microvascular and macrovascular complications of diabetes increased with increasing glycated hemoglobin levels and increasing diabetes duration.

TL;DR: The combination of five risk factors (obesity, physical inactivity, unfavorable diet risk score, hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL cholesterol) could explain 80.7% of all incident diabetes in the Asian Indian population and modifying these easily identifiable risk factors could prevent the majority of cases of incident diabetes.

TL;DR: The MPAQ is an acceptable, reproducible and valid instrument, which captures data from multiple activity domains over the period of a year from adults of both genders and varying ages in various walks of life residing in urban and rural India.