Urbanization a Concern in India’s Growing Dyslipidemia Problem

Thursday 7 February 2013, Amsterdam

Lifestyle factors, including a sedentary lifestyle and high caloric and alcohol intake are contributing to an increase in prevalent cases of dyslipidemia across India, says research and a consulting firm. The company’s new epidemiology report* forecasts the number of dyslipidemia sufferers across the south Asian nation to climb from 192.7 million in 2012 to 245 million by the end of 2022 – a growth of 27% in just 10 years. The  attributes this jump in prevalent cases primarily to the expected continuation of healthy population growth. The nation with the second largest increase across the nine countries studied in the report, China, is predicted to increase by a comparatively modest 15% during the same period – from 84.7 million prevalent cases in 2012 to 97.1 million a decade on. Dyslipidemia is a condition in which one or more blood lipid levels are abnormal. An individual is classified as being dyslipidemic if there is an observed elevation in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), total cholesterol (TC), or triglycerides (TG), or a low concentration of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). The epidemiologists forecast that the prevalent cases of dyslipidemia in the nine major markets (the US, China, Japan, India and the five top European markets) will increase from 444 million cases in 2012 to 522 million cases in 2022 at an Annual Growth Rate (AGR) of 1.76%.