Population-based investigations from Indian megacities reveal insights into diabetes and broader chronic disease among native South Asian individuals.
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CARRS was initiated as a collaboration between Public Health Foundation of India, the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Emory University. A compendium of published papers can be found at (www.carrsprogram.org). CARRS has received funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HHSN2682009900026C; P01HL154996), National Institute on Aging (R01AG89759), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK139632; R21DK105891), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (D43HD065249), and the Fogarty International Center (D43HD065249; D43TW009337; U01TW010097; U2RTW010108) of the US National Institutes of Health. It has also received support from the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India (grant 5/4/3-3/TF/2012/NCD-II) and the UnitedHealth Group. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
We acknowledge the contributions of past and present investigators, researchers, and field staff of the CARRS collaboration (https://www.carrsprogram.org/our-team-1). We also thank K. Roy, M. Hutcheson, R. Komal and S. Sajan for project administration and coordination.
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Patel, S.A., Kondal, D., Deepa, M. et al. Lessons from a long cohort study of diabetes in South Asia. Nat Med 31, 3971–3975 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03947-6
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