Journal of Islamic International Medical College (Jun 2023)

Unmasking The Mysteries of Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus: “Why the Pharmacotherapeutic Advances are Not Competently Enough?

  • Asim Zulfiqar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.57234/jiimc.june23.1738
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 2
pp. 91 – 92

Abstract

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Since the IDF's most recent figures were released in 2019, the prevalence of diabetes in Pakistan has dramatically increased. 33 million adults in Pakistan had diabetes in 2021, a 70% rise from 2019. After China (141 million) and India (74 million), Pakistan presently has the third-highest number of persons with diabetes worldwide. Diabetes caused 400,000 fatalities in the nation in 2021, more than any other disease in the Middle East and North Africa. In Pakistan, an extra 11 million persons have impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), putting them at a high risk of getting type 2 diabetes. Pakistan has the highest national prevalence of diabetes in the world, with a frequency of one in four persons (26.7%) almost a quarter...................................................................