New Delhi: India’s struggle with diabetes has been described in many ways over the years, but doctors at AIIMS Delhi say the situation has now entered far more dangerous territory. The country may already carry the unwelcome label of the world’s diabetes capital, yet a deeper worry is emerging: the number of people living with uncontrolled diabetes is climbing sharply, and with it, the risk of life-threatening complications.

Dr Manjunath Maruti Pol, Additional Professor in the Department of Surgery at AIIMS, explained that this uncontrolled form of the disease is quietly driving kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes, nerve damage and vision loss across the population. Out of the roughly 70 million Indians diagnosed with diabetes, he said, almost half are unable to keep their blood sugar

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