The Better India · 12 hours ago

At Kgmu Lucknow, a Simple 11-Metre Walking Test May Help Doctors Detect Prediabetes Early in India

A team of researchers in Lucknow discovered that the way a person walks - measured in an 11-metre tunnel equipped with motion sensors - may detect prediabetes years before conventional blood tests, revealing muscle weakness patterns that signal metabolic distress. In a country where 136 million people live unknowingly with prediabetes, most lacking access to regular laboratory screening, this non-invasive test offers something rare: a window that opens before the door closes. "Diabetes is known to affect both muscles and the brain at an early stage," Dr. Seema Tewari explains, and her patented method reads what the body has been saying all along through the subtle language of movement. The discovery matters not because it replaces blood tests, but because it asks a different question - not who is sick enough to worry, but who might still have time to change course.