Verma, Madhur
Halder, Pritam https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2407-6807
Aditi, Aditi
Kapoor, Nitin
Esht, Vandana
Ahamed, Waseem Mumtaz
Kakkar, Rakesh
Kalra, Sanjay https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1308-121X
Article History
Received: 24 February 2026
Accepted: 22 May 2026
First Online: 18 June 2026
Declarations
Conflict of Interest: Madhur Verma, Pritam Halder, Aditi Aditi, Vandana Esht, Waseem Mumtaz Ahamed, and Rakesh Kakkar have nothing to disclose. Sanjay Kalra and Nitin Kapoor are Editorial Board members of Diabetes Therapy. Sanjay Kalra and Nitin Kapoor were not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions.
Ethical Approval: As this is a secondary analysis of a publicly available dataset, ethical approval for the present study was not deemed necessary. However, the ethical approval to conduct LASI was given by the Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) Central Ethics Committee on Human Research (CECHR) in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The LASI study received ethical approvals from all collaborating organisations.