About the Authors

Shashank R. Joshi

Affiliation Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai, India

Ranjit Mohan Anjana

Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control & IDF Centre of Education, Chennai, India

Mohan Deepa

Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control & IDF Centre of Education, Chennai, India

Rajendra Pradeepa

Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control & IDF Centre of Education, Chennai, India

Anil Bhansali

Affiliation Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Vinay K. Dhandania

Affiliation Diabetes Care Center, Ranchi, India

Prashant P. Joshi

Affiliation Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, India

Ranjit Unnikrishnan

Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control & IDF Centre of Education, Chennai, India

Elangovan Nirmal

Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control & IDF Centre of Education, Chennai, India

Radhakrishnan Subashini

Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control & IDF Centre of Education, Chennai, India

Sri Venkata Madhu

Affiliation University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, Delhi, India

Paturi Vishnupriya Rao

Affiliation Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India

Ashok Kumar Das

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India

Tanvir Kaur

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Deepak Kumar Shukla

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Viswanathan Mohan

drmohans@diabetes.ind.in

Affiliation Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control & IDF Centre of Education, Chennai, India

for the ICMR– INDIAB Collaborative Study Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RMA VM. Performed the experiments: MD RP EN. Analyzed the data: MD RS. Wrote the paper: MD RP RU. Supervision of the study in their respective states: SRJ AB VKD PPJ. Helped revising the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: SVM PVR AKD TK DKS. Read and approved the final manuscript: SRJ RMA MD RP AB VKD PPJ RU EN RS SVM PVR AKD TK DKS VM.