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My 40-year journey in diabetes research: The power of collaboration
This article describes a 40 year journey in diabetes research of an Indian diabetologist, starting as an undergraduate medical student. The article describes how collaborations with multiple stake-holders is necessary if one is to advance one's research from the simple studies that one starts with…
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Managing diabetes and COVID-19: A national strategic framework
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been one of the greatest health challenges that humanity has witnessed in recent times. Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common noncommunicable diseases and its prevalence is very high in evlderly people. COVID-19 also has a worse prognosis in…
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Expanding role of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation - Indian Diabetes Risk Score in clinical practice
The Indian Diabetes Risk Score was initially developed by the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF-IDRS) to help detect undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in the community. Soon it was found that the MDRF-IDRS could also help to predict incident diabetes, metabolic syndrome, coronary artery…
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Vitamin D and its role in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The unprecedented (in scale, scope) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken the world by storm. Cases and case fatality rates are mounting and in this panic-stricken environment, where there are no specific antinovel corona viral drugs or vaccines, doctors are experimenting with…
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Changing definitions of metabolic syndrome
The first description of patients with clustering of various metabolic abnormalities was as early as 1923 but it was more than five decades later, in 1988, that Reaven coined the term ′syndrome X′ for this entity. The last two decades have brought forth a number of definitions and criteria to…
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Physical activity and exercise in dementia: clinical relevance and emerging insights
Dementia continues to pose a growing challenge worldwide, particularly in aging populations where effective disease-modifying treatments remain limited. In this context, attention has increasingly shifted toward non-pharmacological approaches, including physical activity and structured exercise…
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Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in India
The burden of diabetes is high and increasing globally, and in developing economies like India, mainly fueled by the increasing prevalence of overweight/obesity and unhealthy lifestyles. The estimates in 2019 showed that 77 million individuals had diabetes in India, which is expected to rise to…
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An unusual case of non-measurable glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) by high-performance liquid chromatography in a type 2 diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic disease and to see the long-term glycemic control, most commonly glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is estimated. Presently, the most common method used to do HbA1c is high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method. But in some cases unusually, low HbA1c is recorded by the…
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Digital health and diabetes: experience from India
The digitization of healthcare and its usage in the delivery of healthcare have experienced exponential growth across the world in recent times. India’s fast-growing diabetes population has been exerting immense pressure on the country’s healthcare infrastructure. Various innovative and evolving…
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Does tight control of systemic factors help in the management ofdiabetic retinopathy?
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), one of the leading causes of preventable blindness, is associated with many systemic factors that contribute to the development and progression of this microvascular complication of diabetes. While the duration of diabetes is the major risk factor for the development of…
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Non-islet cell tumor hypoglycemia in a patient with pleural tumor and hypoinsulinemic hypoglycemia: A case report
Non-islet cell tumor hypoglycemia (NICTH) is a relatively rare paraneoplastic syndrome associated with tumors of mesenchymal and epithelial cell origin. Hypoglycemia can be the presenting symptom of NICTH or can appear later in the disease course. The cause of NICTH is stated to be due to secretion…