Launching an Indo-French Liver and Metabolic Disease Network (InFLiMeN), the Union minister, a diabetologist, said the Indo-French Node aims to address key issues related to a common metabolic liver disorder and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday said the spread of Type 2 diabetes mellitus is assuming epidemic proportions in India.
The study found that people who regularly consumed one or more eggs per day (equivalent to 50 grams) increased their risk of diabetes by 60 per cent and the effect was more pronounced in women than in men.
"Being overweight and obese are strong risk factors for both type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and patients are often counselled to lose weight to reduce the likelihood of developing both conditions," said study author Ambarish Pandey from UT Southwestern Medical Centre in the US.
"Our results suggest that when patients are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, starting medications to prevent cardiovascular disease has a substantial impact on the risk of heart attacks and premature death," said study author Christine Gyldenkerne from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark.
The majority of knowledge surrounding diabetes and its cardiovascular complications has been accumulated from studying white populations with Western European ancestry, despite the fact that diabetes in Europeans is very different from Asians.
With this year’s theme centered on ‘The Family and Diabetes’, here are a few tips that will help you to manage this lifestyle disease better.
People with more muscle mass expend more energy than people with less muscle mass, said the researcher.
Empagliflozin is a medication that falls under a category of drugs called SGLT2 inhibitors, which lower blood sugar.
Women with the highest antioxidant scores had a reduction in diabetes risk of 27 per cent compared with those having the lowest scores.
