Diabetes Burden in India is Over Four Million

One Large Scale Annual Health Survey has been conducted in the year 2010-11 for nine States namely, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and Assam.  Fact Sheets for the same were released shortly.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Disease Diabetes in these States have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons. 

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States	Diabetes	Population (2011)	Estimate of Persons Diagnosed for Diabetes (2011)
Chhattisgarh	563	25540196	143791
Madhya Pradesh	352	72597565	255543
Uttar Pradesh	287	199581477	572799
Uttarakhand	669	10116752	67681
Odisha	604	41947358	253362
Rajasthan	135	68621012	92638
Bihar	277	103804637	287539
Jharkhund	371	32966238	122305
Assam	541	31169272	168626
Total of Nine States	335	586344507	1964284

Using population provisional estimates from Census 2011, the number of people diagnosed for Diabetes in these nine states has been estimated as about 2 millions for the year 2011.  This is the minimal (lower bound) of the effected persons by Diabetes in these states of India.  On working backwards, one can say that Diabetes prevalence in these states is about 0.335% on the average.    Minimum Diabetes Burden in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar states cross one million persons and it is about 57% of the total burden of these nine states.

If one assumes the average prevalence rate of these nine states as the
prevalence rate in India, the minimum number of persons effected by this disease in India would be over 4 millions.