18% of young adults in India already have diabetes; doctor explains why

For years, diabetes was seen as something that arrived quietly in middle age, a lifestyle disease that crept in after decades of sugar, stress and slowing metabolism. But across urban India, that old belief is collapsing. More young adults in their 20s and 30s are walking into clinics with blood sugar levels that once belonged to older generations. Their lives are fast, their careers demanding, and their bodies are quietly paying the price.

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