Jakarta, July 28 -- The Jakarta Health Office has highlighted that poor lifestyle choices are putting people at risk of early-onset diabetes mellitus, adding that it is making efforts to promote better habits to tackle this trend.

"Maybe 20-30 years ago, we heard more often about people getting diabetes in their senior years. But now, people in their 30s and 40s are suffering from diabetes, hypertension," deputy of the Jakarta Health Office, Dwi Oktavia, said here on Monday.

These health conditions have become common among the youth in urban areas like Jakarta. One of the risk factors behind this trend is a sedentary lifestyle, or lack of physical activity among the youth, she added.

"Mostly, their daily activities are just sitting in ...