1.              INTRODUCTION

Diabetes has been on the rise in India. There is now more than ever, a need to have a comprehensive cost-effective mass health care strategy to address the disease and its associated complication. Apart from the management of Diabetes, it also becomes vital to screen and identify the high-risk population and put in place appropriate interventions / strategies to prevent progression to diabetes mellitus.

S-VYASA (a deemed University under section 3 of UGC act 1956), is a NAAC A+ accredited University established in 2002 with a vision to make Yoga a socially relevant science. As a part of our mission, we have scientifically validated Yoga practices and have been able to scientifically develop and administer personalised disease specific Yoga modules. In 2016, our initiative ’Stop Diabetes Movement’ was adopted by the Ministry Of AYUSH as a national program – Niyantritha Madhumeha Bharatha [NMB] – an initiative to treat and prevent incidence of Diabetes mellitus

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Under the national scheme NMB, we have screened 2,40,968 adults for Diabetes Mellitus across the country. Under the same scheme diagnosed diabetic and high-risk individuals were treated with Yoga and were followed up for 3 months to understand the efficacy of Yoga, to treat diabetes and to prevent conversion of pre-diabetics to diabetics.  In continuation, we here propose to study efficacy and mechanism of action of Ayurveda and Yoga in prevention & management of Diabetes through Ayurveda & Yoga. Standardized ayurvedic formulation, Ayush-82 and Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy (IAYT) module used previously in SDM will be used as interventions. The study is funded under the CSR program of Jivanti Welfare and Charitable Trust

Rationale of the study