Early diagnosis, awareness key to tackling obesity, hypertension, diabetes surge: Centre

Citing the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5, 2019–21), he said 24% of women and 23% of men in India are overweight or obese. More than 1 crore people have hypertension, and about 64 lakh are diabetic and receiving treatment, according to data from January to June this year.