World Health Organisation Diabetes Statistics

I am an officer of health department. Diabetes is worldwide health issue today. How many Indians are suffered from this disease? I want to know its statistical data of WHO (world health organisation). Please provide me its link.

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Diabetes is a chronic disease, which occurs when the pancreas does not produce the amount of insulin required, or when the body can’t use effectively the insulin produced . Hence the concentration of glucose in the blood increases (hyperglycaemia). Age-standardized mortality rate because of Cardiovasular diseases and diabetes in year 2008 was 328 for ages 30-70, per 100 000 population.

Here is the World Health Organization Report on Diabetes and other Chronic Disease. There is also another report on India Health Profile. To view the reports, click on the attachments given below, and download it.