Diabetes was the most dangerous diseases posing a great challenge to medical fraternity.
Sedentary lifestyle was one of the prime reasons for sharp increase in type 2 diabetes, said Madurai Medical College Dean M. Vairamuthu Raja.
Inaugurating a conference on diabetes here on Saturday, he said that lack of physical exercise was a known risk factor for not just diabetes but a range of chronic diseases, including cardio vascular diseases.
Caution
Medical surveys already cautioned that India will have 109 million diabetic type 2 cases in 2030. It will be a big challenge to the country.
Work sites, schools, homes, and public spaces have already been minimised human movement and muscular activity.
“Physical inactivity is hazardous to health.”
Briefing on the recent technological developments, he said that advanced research on various gene therapies, including virus mediated gene therapy and leptin-based gene therapy, was on to control diabetes.
The government had been also been taking massive efforts to scale down production costs of medicine to enable patients to get medicine at affordable costs.
Diabetic patients who have been taking drugs and checking health condition regularly were leading a long life.
Those who failed take care of their health died early.
Stating that a Lancet survey indicated the overdose of drugs was also a prime reason for death, he said prescribing appropriate medicine was need of the hour to control diseases effectively.
Experts and specialists delivered lectures on recent trends in diabetes.
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