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| Diabetes on rise among KPs | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 12: Migration from the valley and chronic stress level has increased incidence of diabetes among Kashmiri Pandits fraternity here, an expert said today.
Pandit families settled here or across the country, are becoming more prone to diabetes due to migration, rising stress level and instant change in the climatic conditions besides lifestyle, Dr Jitender Singh, a renowned diabetologist of Jammu and Kashmir said.
''Chronic stress level, no rehabilitation, change in eating habits and lifestyle emerged as the major reasons of increasing number of diabetes cases among Kashmiri Pandits living in Jammu,'' Dr Singh said. He said that every fourth or fifth migrant is suffering from
this disease adding, ''for the last 15 years, the disease level has increased among the fraternity either due to stress level or migrating to different places across the country.''
He, however, said that the second generations, who have moved out, have also been gripped by disease due to changing living standards and habits. Dr Singh added that apart from migrants, diabetes patients have also increased in general by 10-15 per cent in this region. ''Due to central obesity among both men and women, diabetes patients have
increased by 60 to 63 per cent in the city and its suburbs,'' he said adding that the disease is also spreading its tentacles in the rural areas due to change in lifestyles.
''Over the last ten years diabetes figure has increased,'' Dr Singh said. He said that during pregnancy there are chances that six to seven per cent of the females suffer from this disease. ''Various measures are being taken to warn people about the causes and prevention of the disease but the day to day lifestyle, eating habits among youngsters,
lack of physical activity, rising stress, are producing more diabetic patients not only in the state but across the country,'' Dr Singh added.
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