Sheila John ¹, Anna Rangini Chellappa ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, Women's Christian College, Chennai - 600 006, IN

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease epidemic with a global prevalence of 300 million people. In the Indian scenario, the WHO has estimated a sharp upswing in the number of diabetics from 19.4 million in 1995 to an expected 57.2 million by 2025, the chief reason being urbanisation and life styled besides heredity, race, age, nutritional status, stress, altered immune function, altered physiological and metabolic status, drugs and hormones.

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