Type 1 diabetes rising among kids: National study

NEW DELHI: At a time when the pandemic has disproportionately hit people with diabetes, the

ICMR

on Monday released a guidance document for the management of

Type 1 diabetes

. The first nationwide

diabetes

prevalence study reported a narrowing of urban-rural difference in the burden of diabetes. It also found a surge in children being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

As per the study, the disease has become apparent in the age group of 25-34 years in both urban and rural areas. While Type 2 diabetes is more common among adults, the ICMR study found more and more children being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in India.

India has nearly 95,600 cases of Type 1 diabetes among children below 14 years of age, and every year, around 15,900 fresh cases are being reported in this age group. An estimated of 2.5 lakh people in India suffer from type 1 diabetes.

Individuals with Type 1 diabetes need support to survive, using insulin and other therapies, and to live their entire life without stigma, restrictions, or disabling complications due to their illness. Intensive management of all aspects of diabetes, especially glycemic (blood glucose) control, is now the gold standard in Type 1 diabetes management, the ICMR guideline said.

In India, there exists a considerable variability in the quality of diabetes care, which depends upon various factors such as accessibility to services, affordability of drugs, attitude and perceptions of care providers, lack of specialists and diabetes educators, standardized laboratories and treatment guidelines.

Although several international guidelines are available for Type 1 diabetes management, a context specific culturally adaptive guideline that ensures affordable diabetes care is the need of the hour to inform the diabetes care providers in low and middle income countries such as India, the medical research body stated.

The ICMR Type 1 diabetes guidelines is a comprehensive document providing advice on care of diabetes in children, adolescents and adults.



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