Diabetes Prevalence is Highest among Urban Males of Odisha (Orissa) and lowest among Rural Females of Rajasthan State (India) out eight EAG States and Assam

Annual Health Survey has been conducted in the year 2010-11 for nine States namely, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand and Assam.  Fact Sheets for the same have been utilized to have the prevalence of Diabetes in these States have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons as per their sex and residence. 

Diagnosed for chronic Illnes (per 100,000 Population) Diabetes
	Person			Male			Female
State	Total	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Assam	541	357	1400	653	421	1720	423	291	1053
Bihar	277	213	699	333	250	870	217	175	509
Chhattisgarh	563	338	1377	690	426	1634	432	249	1105
Jharkhand	371	176	924	455	223	1092	282	127	737
Madhya Pradesh	352	162	741	382	181	792	318	141	684
Odisha	604	405	1622	750	504	1979	456	306	1248
Rajasthan	135	67	344	153	83	368	115	49	318
Uttar Pradesh	287	194	619	325	220	687	248	166	544
Uttarakhand	669	356	1436	732	393	1517	606	321	1348

It may be seen from the above table that Diabetes illness is prevalent highest in Uttarakhand at the total person level and in Odisha for both the rural and urban areas.  It is lowest in Rajasthan among the mentioned nine survey states.  Invariably, the burden of the disease is more in urban than rural and males experience this deadly disease more that the females in all the regions of these states.  The disease burden is not more than 2% anywhere in these states for males and 1.4 percent for females.