New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- A recent data from the 'Longitudinal Aging Study in India' (LASI), revealed that about a fifth of those aged 45 and above were living with diabetes in 2019. It also said that two of these people of the five were possibly unaware of their condition. The study was published in The Lancet Global Health.

The LASI survey - covering nearly 60,000 adults between 2017 and 2019 - revealed that diabetes prevalence was almost identical among men and women at about 20%. Urban residents were twice as likely to have the disease compared to those in rural areas. Notably, in more economically developed states, the share of people with diabetes was even higher, with some reporting one-third or more of their older population affected....