Dr Anoop Misra - Diabetologist

Dr Anoop Misra is a specialist in Diabetes, Obesity, Lipid Disorders and Metabolic Syndrome. He is a WHO Expert Committee Member on Childhood Obesity and Obesity in Indians. He is member of several National Committees on Diabetes (India), and Diabetes Control Programme, DPR Korea. Dr. Misra has received several prestigious decorations and awards including the Dr. B C Roy award for 2006. He has several new scientific findings to his credit, and is on the Editorial Boards of five international journals on diabetes. He has served as Personal Physician to two former Prime Ministers of India. 

He has been a faculty at the Department of Endocrinology and Human Nutrition at the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, USA.

He has been World Health Organization fellow at Department of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk at the Royal Free Hospital, UK (2000) and Department of Endocrinology and Human Nutrition at the University of Texas (1996).

Prof. Misra is an internationally acclaimed researcher and scientist.

He has several important new scientific findings to his credit including new definitions of obesity, abdominal

obesity and syndrome X in Asian Indians and new test for monitoring of diabetes.

He has several research projects (hypothesis driven, genetic-metabolic, clinical pharmacology research etc) involving several collaborators in India and in other countries (USA, UK, The Netherlands, Australia etc).

He is member of Elsevier Scientific Advisory Board on Diabetes in India.

He has started the biggest health education programs for school children in Asia aiming at prevention of obesity and diabetes now covering 500,000 children in 10 cities in north India, aided by grant from World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark (Project 'MARG').

Awards, Orations and Honors

S.N. Tripathy Memorial Oration (2003)

Prof. Austin E. Doyle Oration (2004)

Dr K.L. Wig Oration (2005)

Sam G. Moses Oration (2005)

Prof. B.R. Sengupta Oration (2005)

Searle Oration (2006)

Amar Sen Oration (2006)

D.K. Pal Chowdhary Oration (2006)

 Dr BC Roy Award (2006)

Kamala Puri Sabharwal Oration (2007)

Dr O.P.Gupta Oration (2007)

Padma Shree award (2007)

Amrit Mody Oration (2008)

V Ramalingaswami Oration (2009)

Welcome to N-DOC

National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC) is under the President ship of Dr. Anoop Misra, Director and Head, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Fortis Hospitals (New Delhi and NOIDA) and the able guidance of Dr Angeli Misra, Director, Lifeline Laboratories, Dr Asha Bhatnagar, Director, Lifeline Laboratories and Mr Neeraj Bhatnagar, MD, Corporate Group.

N-DOC is committed to fight against diabetes, obesity and cholesterol related disorders and raising awareness of these diseases.

Diabetes

Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world. 50.8 million diabetics out of World’s 285 million diabetics, are in India, according to the figures released by International Diabetes Federation (IDF) in October 2009. According to a study conducted by Dr Anoop Misra and his team, Delhi alone has an estimated 29.8 lakh people suffering from this disease (Indo-US collaborative study). Another study conducted by the same team, revealed that 37% of urban South Asian Indians suffer from Diabetes and pre-Diabetes. The rise in type 2 diabetes is mostly evident in urban areas where rapid economic development has led people to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and consume more refined foods. However, rural communities are also

showing an increasing trend towards diabetes due to commercialization of villages by market forces.

Obesity

Obesity is a significant risk factor associated with the development of Diabetes, Cardio vascular disease and other non-communicable diseases. In an INDO-US collaborative study conducted among Asian Indians by Dr Anoop Misra and his team, it was recorded that the prevalence of obesity (Body Mass Index (BMI) >23 kg/m2) in urban areas was 65.41% and 31.8% in rural areas, respectively. Indians exhibit unique features of obesity—excess body fat, abdominal adiposity, increased subcutaneous and intra-abdominal fat, and deposition of fat in ectopic sites (liver, muscle, etc.). With improvement in the economic situation of the country, the prevalence of obesity is showing an marked upward trend in adults. The factors which escalate this problematic scenario are increasing urbanization, nutrition transition, and reduced physical activity.

Dyslipidemia

Dyslipidemia refers to the derangements of one or many of the blood lipid parameters; elevations of total cholesterol, low-density cholesterol (LDL) and/or triglycerides(TG), or low levels of high-density cholesterol (HDL). Studies reported a 44% prevalence of elevation of cholesterol among men and 50% prevalence among women in urban Delhi during 1984-87. Dr Misra and his team recorded low levels of HDL-C levels in 15-16% of the

people belonging to the low socio-economic stratum living in New Delhi. Dyslipidemia is a major risk factor of coronary heart diseases that are influenced by lifestyle transition and urbanization. In India, the main determinants of dyslipidemia are: reduced physical activity, imbalanced diet, excess abdominal fat and genetic predisposition.

Childhood Obesity

Obesity is now being recognized as a major health problem in both developed and developing countries. India is facing a ‘double jeopardy’, with obesity emerging as an important health problem and ironically co-existing with significant undernutrition prevailing in different sections of the population. The major health consequences associated with overweight and obesity are type 2 diabetes, coronary heart diseases (CHD), hypertension, dyslipidemia and insulin resistance. Studies on urban Indian schoolchildren from different regions in India report a high prevalence of obese and overweight children. Clearly it is evident that not only the private schools, but also the public school adolescents are overweight / obese. Continued surveys conducted in New Delhi show a secular trend in the increase in the prevalence of obesity. Studies report a prevalence of overweight / obesity among urban private school going adolescents as 29% [1]. The main causes identified are intake of energy dense foods and lack of physical activity.

Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity among 14 – 18 year old urban Indian adolescents in 8 cities of India

City (number)

Overall Overweight/Obesity

Private Schools

Public Schools

New Delhi (n = 11789)

22.0 31.5 9.2

Agra (n = 10013) 14.9 24.5 5.3

Jaipur (n = 9039) 10.4 15.9 5.4

Allahabad (n = 11940) 14.9 18.6 8.6

Mumbai (n = 2168) 22.3 33.9 8.4

Lucknow (n = 1053) 14.9 14.9 NA

Dehradun (n = 1879) 15.4 17.0 2.4

Pantnagar(n = 1561) 3.4 NA 3.4

All cities (n = 49442) 15.7 22.9 6.9

Dr. Anoop Misra is a member of Herbalife’s Nutrition Advisory Board (NAB), based in India. The NAB is made of leading experts around the world in the fields of nutrition and health who educate

and train Herbalife independent Distributors on the principles of nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle.

 

Misra is chairman, Fortis CDOC Center of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology and director, Center of Internal Medicine at Fortis Hospital, New Delhi. He is former professor of medicine and diabetologist at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, where he received his medical degree. Misra has also been on the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Royal London Medical School in the U.K. 

 

He has been published in more than 200 scientific papers in international journals; is member of several international advisory boards, and has received multiple awards including the highest award for medical science in India, the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, and prestigious national honor, Padma Shree; and has served as the personal physician of two Prime Ministers of India. Misra has steered committees for formulation of consensus guidelines for obesity, metabolic syndrome, diet and exercise for Asian Indians. He has written several editorials and commentaries for several prestigious international journals including “The Lancet.”

 

Currently, Misra is conducting the largest program for obesity and healthy nutrition for school children in India.