Obesity has recently emerged as a major global health problem. According to World Health Organization estimates, ≈1.6 billion adults worldwide were overweight (body mass index [BMI] ≥25 kg/m2) and at least 400 million were obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) in 2005, numbers that are expected to reach 2.3 billion and 700 million, respectively, by 2015.

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Obesity kills, everyone knows that. But is it possible that we've been looking at the problem in the wrong way? It seems getting fatter may be part of your body's defence against the worst effects of unhealthy eating, rather than their direct cause.

'In addition to HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, prevention of diabetes should also be considered as the national mission. The Central government should make budgetary allocations for diabetes, which would include research, management and subsidised cost for treatment of diabetes,' said Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, CMD, Biocon Ltd on Thursday.

New Delhi/Chennai: India has set up a six-member committee of experts on the advice of the country

Ramya Kannan

Population studies suggest that persons with diabetes are more sensitive to the effects of particulate matter (PM) air pollution. However, the biological mechanisms of a possible prothrombotic effect underlying this enhanced susceptibility remain largely unknown. The authors hypothesized that exposure to PM causes prothrombotic changes in persons with diabetes, possibly via systemic inflammation.

The objective of the study was to study the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention model of nutrition and lifestyle education on behavior modification, anthropometry and metabolic risk profile of urban Asian-Indian adolescents in North India.

The health ministry is planning to screen all people aged 30-40 in rural areas for lifestyle diseases like diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday.

This study from the Prospective Studies Collaboration (PSC) is a meta-analysis of individual-level information shared by investigators of 57 primary prospective cohort studies to examine the relationship of body-mass index (BMI) with overall and cause-specific mortality.

A commonly used drug to treat Type II diabetes, Byetta, has come under the scanner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which says that it causes kidney problems including kidney failure in patients.

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