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SUBMITTER: Bhardwaj B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6139832 | biostudies-other | 2016 Sep-Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bhardwaj Bhaskar B O'Keefe Evan L EL O'Keefe James H JH
Missouri medicine 20160901 5
By the year 2030, India will supplant China as the world's most populous nation. Rapid urbanization and an increasingly Westernized diet and lifestyle, in a population with genetic predisposition to insulin resistance is fueling a rising epidemic of non-communicable diseases in India. A diet that is high in processed foods, added sugars and other refined carbohydrates is a principle factor driving the growing epidemics of type 2 diabetes (T2D), hypertension (HTN), and cardiovascular (CV) disease ...[more]