City doc to deliver lecture on diabetes at int’l conference

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, February 18

Dr Vitull K Gupta, consultant physician at Kishori Ram Hospital and Diabetes Care Centre, has been invited to deliver a guest lecture at the 7th World Congress of Diabetes – Diabetes India 2017. It is being organised from February 23 to 27 in New Delhi.

More than 4,000 doctors are expected to attend the international conference. National and international eminent faculties have been invited to share their knowledge on diabetes.

Dr Gupta will deliver a guest lecture on ‘A new sartan in clinical practice with lots of promises: Azilsartan’.

Dr Gupta said, “Hypertension is a common cardiovascular disease and is the prime cause for the disease morbidity and mortality worldwide. Almost one third of people are suffering from high blood pressure in developing countries with less medical facilities. People in these countries are not much aware of hypertension and high blood pressure. Studies in India suggest that hypertension is increasing among 30% to 40% adults.”

He said in spite of a numbers of anti-hypertensive drugs, people in India fail to control blood pressure. That is why there was a need for a new potent and safer anti-hypertensive drug, he added