The prevalence of diabetes and hypertension in India is high across all geographical settings and socioeconomic groups in middle and old age, according to a study published Jan. 29 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Pascal Geldsetzer, MBChB, et al., conducted a population-based study of 1,320,555 adults 18 years or older in India, and examined the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension by location and individual-level sociodemographic characteristics between 2012 and 2014. Results showed that the crude prevalence of diabetes and hypertension was 7.5 percent (95 percent confidence interval (CI), 7.3 – 7.7 percent) and 25.3 percent (95 percent CI, 25.0 – 25.6 percent) among both men and women, respectively. The authors also found that when comparing the richest household wealth quintile with the poorest, there was only a slightly higher probability of diabetes and hypertension. When observing level of education, differences in the prevalence of both conditions also were small. Read more on ACC.org.