In addition, CGM is always discussed in the context of type 1 diabetes, whereas the vast majority of the diabetes population consists of type 2 diabetic patients.
With 62 million diabetic patients, India has the world's second largest diabetes population (2) and >90% have T2DM (3).
With more than 50 million sufferers, India has the largest diabetes population in the world, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Our diabetes population contains patients that are mostly on a plethora of medications for cardiovascular co-morbidities e.g. hyperlipidaemia, hypertension and they have high HbA1c levels.
In India, a growing middle class with disposable income is feeding the fast food market, spiking heart disease rates and creating a diabetes population thought to be the largest in the world.
This would be expected, given the diagnosis and the added impact of a more elderly (mean age 51.5 years) and likely more unwell type 2 diabetes population in particular.
Although the diabetes population is soaring, the market for blood glucose monitoring systems is growing in the low- to mid-single-digit range.
7. Huang ES et al. Projecting the future diabetes population size and related costs for the US.
Our type 1 diabetes population is defined from laboratory measures of islet autoantibodies instead of physician classification.
Used in combination, hyperlipidemia and hypertension medications can significantly lower the probability of a cardiovascular event or stroke in the diabetes population.
Figure 2 shows the Kaplan-Meier curve of the cumulative proportion of survivors in our type 2 diabetes population against survival time in years.
