New Delhi: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Jitendra Singh today said that In times to come, India is all set to lead the Diabetes research in the world.
Delivering the inaugural address at the 3-day World Diabetes Meet organised by the coveted professional organisation “Diabetes India” here today, Dr Jitendra Singh, who is also a renowned Diabetologist, said that India has a huge resource pool of patients with different manifestations of diseases at different stages and at the same time there is no dearth of calibre, capacity and acumen on the part of our researchers.
It is therefore the right time to generate as much Indian data as possible because the goal should be to develop Indian treatment regimens for Indian patients, and Indian solutions for Indian problems. He said this is also important because the Indian phenotype is different from the Westerners and the genetic preponderance is also quite different. As a result, the pathogenesis and progress of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and other related metabolic disorders are not the same as in the Western populations, he added.
Citing research evidence, Dr Jitendra Singh said it has now been proven beyond doubt that the Indian-origin diaspora living in European countries for several generations still continue to have a higher preponderance to develop Type 2 diabetes mellitus even though they were no longer living in India and the environmental conditions they are living in is different.
Referring to some of the important risk factors prevalent in Indians, Dr Jitendra Singh said that our central obesity profile is also different from others. For example, in India, the prevalence of central obesity is high and almost equal in both males and females whereas, in the western population, the individual may be apparently looking obese but has general visceral fat, he said.
Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the high priority given to healthcare, the Minister said that it was because of his personal interest and intervention of Prime Minister Modi that within two years, India not only managed the Covid pandemic successfully better than much smaller countries but also succeeded in coming out with a DNA vaccine and providing it to the other countries as well.
Referring to Prime Minister Modi’s support of indigenous medical research, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the time has come to integrate traditional Indian knowledge with modern scientific inferences and also to seek a synergy of different systems of medicine including Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy for optimum and maximum benefits in the control and prevention of diabetes.
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