RESEARCH

Pioneering academic and scientific research carried out by Professor Anoop Misra and Mrs Rekha Sharma has helped in clarifying why Indians have a high tendency to develop diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and heart disease;

• a new definition for obesity, abdominal obesity and syndrome X for the Indian ethnic group;

• a new test for monitoring diabetes, new concepts in the pathogenesis of heart disease (high inflammation and a new genetic abnormality);

• the discovery of a new use of statins for the treatment of diabetic eye disease; 

• a new limit of saturated fat intake for children;

• new cut-offs for total body fat,  subcutaneous and intra-abdominal body fat deposits, the link between obesity and heart dysfunction, and novel phenotypic markers for metabolic syndrome in Asian Indians;

• the effect of resistance exercise which has been researched, and which could improve diabetes control;

• in identifying a new genetic abnormality causing Syndrome X in Indians; in collaboration with researchers worldwide, particularly from the University of Maryland;  and

• new classifications and diagnostic criteria for fat disorders (Lipodystrophies) have been formulated for the first time in the world, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Texas.

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INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERS

• University of Leiden, Netherlands; 

• University of Leicester, University College, London, UK; 

• Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology,Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan 
  

• University of Berlin, Germany; 

• World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark; 

• McMaster University, Canada; 

• University of Stanford, USA  

• University of Texas, USA

• Joslin Clinic, Boston, USA;  

• Curtin Institute of Technology, Bently, W. Australia
  
  
  

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Diabetes Foundation (India) (Regn no.- S/16551/8) is a non-profit organisation registered under the Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860 on 24 April 1986. FCRA approved. All donations are exempted according to the Income Tax Act 80 G of the Government of India.