Finally here is a sure-shot-method of measuring a child’s progress towards obesity.

With doctors warning of a rise in the number of children being brought in with adult lifestyle diseases – including obesity, diabetes and hypertension – a multi-centre, cross-sectional study done on 10,842 children in five cities – Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Raipur – has now suggested healthy cut-off values of waist circumference for screening Metabolic Syndrome in Indian children.

Lifestyle interventions such as weight loss and exercise reduce risk of death from cardiovascular diseases in people at risk of diabetes, a new study published in Lancet has suggested.

Many research studies have shown that lifestyle interventions, such as exercise programmes or weight loss in people with impaired glucose tolerance (those at high risk of diabetes), can prevent progression to overt Type 2 diabetes.

With Holi just around the corner, doctors have begun warning people against chemical-laden colours available in the market.

Pune: Thirty-five-year old Subhash woke up one morning with intense abdominal pain. He thought it could be just a cramp or a result of indigestion. But the pain kept getting worse.

One in every 10 adults in India suffers from chronic kidney disease (CKD), and at any given point, nearly five lakh patients are in need of life-long dialysis or transplant, according to Sanjay K.

Elderly people with hypertension, diabetes and high protein in urine, are always at risk of renal diseases.

A study by the team of researchers at the IRCM in Montreal led by Remi Rabasa-Lhoret, in collaboration with Jerome Ruzzin from the University of Bergen in Norway, could eventually help improve the

About 80 million people are suffering from Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, like, cardiac diseases, stroke, asthma and diabetes in Pakistan.