RESEARCH

Pioneering academic and scientific research carried out by Professor Anoop Misra and Mrs Rekha Sharma has helped in clarifying why Indians have a high tendency to develop diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and heart disease;

·      A new definition for obesity, abdominal obesity and syndrome X for the Indian ethnic group;

·      A new test for monitoring diabetes, new concepts in the pathogenesis of heart disease (high inflammation and a new genetic abnormality);

·      The discovery of a new use of statins for the treatment of diabetic eye disease; 

·      A new limit of saturated fat intake for children;

·      New cut-offs for total body fat,  subcutaneous and intra-abdominal body fat deposits, the link between obesity and heart dysfunction, and novel phenotypic markers for metabolic syndrome in Asian Indians;

·      The effect of resistance exercise which has been researched, and which could improve diabetes control;

·      In identifying a new genetic abnormality causing Syndrome X in Indians; in collaboration with researchers worldwide, particularly from the University of Maryland;

·      New classifications and diagnostic criteria for fat disorders (Lipodystrophies) have been formulated for the first time in the world, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Texas

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERS

·      University of Leiden, Netherlands; 

·      University of Leicester, University College, London, UK; 

·      Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology,Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan 

·      University of Berlin, Germany; 

·      World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark; 

·      McMaster University, Canada; 

·      University of Stanford, USA  

·      University of Texas, USA

·      Joslin Clinic, Boston, USA;  

·      Curtin Institute of Technology, Bently, W. Australia