Description
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased rapidly. In India, 30 million people have diabetes and this is expected to increase to nearly 60 million by 2017 (Kutty and Raju, 2010) Given India's limited resources, it is important for health policy makers to choose from the ever-widening list of health conditions that vie for attention, and it is a list to which diabetes must be added as an important public health problem.