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Prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance) in urban and rural India: phase I results of the Indian Council of Medical Research-INdia DIABetes (ICMR-INDIAB) study.

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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.
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Aims/hypothesis This study reports the results of the first phase of a national study to determine the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance) in India.

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High prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in India: National Urban Diabetes Survey.

TL;DR: This national study shows that the prevalence of diabetes is high in urban India, and there is a large pool of subjects with impaired glucose tolerance at a high risk of conversion to diabetes.
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Secular trends in the prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in urban South India--the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES-17).

TL;DR: Compared with earlier studies, the prevalence of diabetes in Chennai, representing urban India, has increased while that of IGT has decreased and there was a shift in the age at diagnosis of diabetes to a younger age in CURES compared with NUDS.
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The Indian Council of Medical Research-India Diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB) study: methodological details.

TL;DR: The ICMR-INDIAB study is the first of its kind attempting to provide accurate and comprehensive state- and national-level data on diabetes prevalence in India, covering all 28 states and two of the union territories with a total sample size of 124,000 individuals.
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