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India - Childhood Diabetes and Fatalities
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- India saw the highest number of childhood diabetes cases and deaths in 2019 in the world.
- The study was published in the journal JAMA Network.
- The country also has the highest disability-adjusted life-years (DALY).
- One DALY represents the loss of the equivalent of one year of full health, according to the World Health Organization.
- Globally, in 2019, there were 227,580 cases of childhood diabetes, 5,390 deaths and 519,117 DALYs.
- This represents a 39.4 per cent increase in incident cases since 1990.
- The largest increase in cases (52.06 per cent) was recorded in children aged 10 to 14 years.
- The smallest increase (30.52 per cent) in those aged between 1 and 4 years.
- The incident rate in India was 10.92 and 11.68 in 1990 and 2019, respectively.
- In contrast, the global number of diabetes-associated deaths in children dropped by 20 per cent to 5,390 in 2019 from 6,719 in 1990.
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