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Tsunami of Diabetes in Pakistan

Abstract

Dear Editor, Diabetes is believed to be a leading issue worldwide. It disables and kills people at most of their productive age, depriving households or decreasing elderly people life expectancy. Diabetes is one of the major threats which does not consider social class and borders. None of the countries of the world is protected from diabetes while the endemic is anticipated to continue. Disease burden depletes health care budget, slows financial growth, decreases productivity, causes disastrous expenditure for susceptible families and devastates health care systems1 . Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder associated with disturbances to protein, fat metabolism and carbohydrate resulting from complete or relative deficiency of insulin with malfunction in the organ systems of body2 . The word DM is taken from diabainen and its meaning is ‘to pass through’ while mellitus meaning is “sweet”. This narrates passing of the “sweetened” urine. DM could be due to pancreas failure that makes insulin (type-1 diabetes) or due to faults in the insulin action such as faults in the insulin sensitivity and inequality between pancreatic supply and insulin physiological demand that are frequent in gestational and type-2 diabetes

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