Tag: Diabetes

Dentists can spot undiagnosed diabetes

Dentists may be able to help spot undiagnosed diabetes or identify people with pre-diabetes. By identifying the people with the disease who are unaware...

Smoking, diabetes and obesity shrinks brain

It is essential to avoid smoking and keep weight, blood sugar levels and blood pressure under control as these risk factors in middle age...

Diabetes, blood pressure common in people

The incidence of chronic kidney disease is rising in the country owing to late diagnosis, high volume of stones disease and rising trend of...

NIDE warns against growing vulnerability to diabetes

Prof Dr M Zaman Shaikh, the Director of Dow University of Health Sciences’ National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology (NIDE), has warned that the...

‘Alliances and collaborations needed to tackle diabetes’

The 2nd International Conference on Diabetes concluded on Monday with the recommendation that strategic alliances should be expanded among the government, industry, civil society...

Pakistanis easy victims of diabetes due to dietary habits

My mother was tested positive for diabetes, incidentally after a urine test. That was about ten years ago, and since then she, like so...

World Diabetes Day to be observed on Monday

World Diabetes Day will be observed on 14 November over the world including Pakistan to increase an awareness of the effects of diabetes and...

Diabetes linked to bowel cancer

A new study has claimed that diabetics are likely to develop bowel cancer later in life. Researchers, led by the University of Western Australia, have...

8 million diabetes cases in Pakistan

LAHORE: There has been a drastic increase in the number of diabetics over the past decade and there are nearly eight million diabetics across Pakistan, Akhuwat Health Services Project Director Dr Izharul Haq said on Saturday.
He expressed these views on the occasion of the World Diabetes Day. Haq said that around 10 years ago, Pakistan was ranked eighth on the list of countries having most diabetes patients but now its ranking had worsened to fourth. The project director said