title: Diabetes mellitus: Trends in northern India.
abstract: Diabetes mellitus is becoming a global health issue with more than 80% diabetics living in developing countries. India accounts for 62.4 million diabetics (2011). Indian Council of Medical Research India Diabetes Study (ICMR-INDIAB) study showed highest weighted prevalence rate in the north India among all studied regions. Diabetes in north India has many peculiarities in all aspects from risk factors to control programmers. North Indians are becoming more prone for diabetes and dyslipidemia because rapid westernization of living style and diet due rapid migration to metropolitan cities for employment. North Indian diabetes is plagued with gender bias against females, poor quality of health services, myths, and lack of disease awareness compounded with small number of prevention and awareness programmers that too are immature to counteract the growing pandemic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Manish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gutch
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Syed Mohd
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Razi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sukriti
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Keshav Kumar
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Gupta
keywords: Diabetes mellitus; diabetic myths; financial burden; northern India; urbanization