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Change in lifestyles, attitude can bring down diabetes

24th April, 2009 - Posted by admin -

VELLORE: Only change in lifestyles and attitudes among people, coupled with precautionary measures, could bring down the increasing incidence of

diabetes in the country, a top government official said here on Friday. 

In this regard, doctors should educate people about health, hygiene, hazards due to garbage and pollution so that some of them would try to rectify themselves at least after treatment, V S Sripathy, chief Secretary, government of Tamil Nadu said here on Friday. 

He was speaking after inaugurating a Rs 100 crore modern kidney laboratory in the nephrology department at the CMC hospital here.