Chennai, March 10: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, who is also a renowned Diabetologist said that preventing Diabetes in Pregnancy is crucial for the next generation’s well-being.
Dr Jitendra Singh, as chief guest, while addressing the Annual Conference of DIPSI (Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group of India), said that Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus has already assumed epidemic proportions in India, with India having achieved the dubious distinction of being described as the Diabetes Capital of the world.
In an alarming situation like this, he said, unless we are able to effectively prevent the occurrence of Diabetes in pregnant women, it may not be possible to break the chain of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus getting passed on from generation to generation and thus affecting the future generations.
It is a well known fact, said Dr Jitendra Singh, that a woman who gets Gestational Diabetes Mellitus(GDM) is likely to pass on to her progeny a higher preponderance to develop Type 2 diabetes and that too at a relatively younger age.
Today’s newborns, said Dr Jitendra Singh, are tomorrow’s youth and would determine the face and profile of India in the year 2047 and, therefore, all of us owe it not only to the medical fraternity but to the nation as a whole to support and supplement the crusade taken up by Dr. V. Seshiah for primordial prevention of diabetes in pregnancy.
