INTRODUCTION
Diabetes is an epidemic in India. Estimates show that more than 3 crore people have been diagnosed with diabetes in India with the prevalence rate being 9 per cent in the urban areas of India and 3 per cent amongst the rural Indian population. The estimate of the actual number of diabetics is around 4 crores considering the huge number of cases which still lie undiagnosed or unreported. India actually has the highest number of diabetics as compared to any other country in the world. Diabetes is also beginning to appear much earlier in life in India, meaning that chronic long-term complications are becoming more common. Almost half of all deaths attributable to high blood glucose occur before the age of 70 years. WHO estimates that diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in 2016. The growing burden of diabetes isn’t the only matter of concern, since the disease isn’t self-limiting but leads to a massacre of other health problems. The debilitating condition increases the risk of a number of other chronic health problems like coronary heart disorders, kidney failure, neuropathy, retinopathy and, what not? Patients with diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease have the high risk (20.2%) of myocardial infarction. Diabetic patients have two-to-four-fold higher chances and are more prone to develop coronary heart disease than individuals without diabetes. In this periodical we wish to draw major emphasis on Type-2 Diabetes and its association with increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.