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Summary Medical experts have said that at least 26,000 women die of diabetes every year in Pakistan.
In Pakistan every year twelve thousand diabetes patients suffer problem of Retinopathy and more than a hundred patients have to get their foot cut due to diabetes and its related complications.Early diagnosis can prevent the long term complication of diabetes, said medical experts at 3-day Second International Conference on Diabetes.The 2nd International Conference on Diabetes 2011 organized by Dow University of Health Sciences in collaboration with Diabetic Association of Pakistan.International Diabetes Federation President-Elect Sir Michael Hirst sharing said that more than 300 million people have diabetes; representing 6 per cent of the worlds adult population, with numbers increasing fast everywhere. An additional seven million people develop the disease each year.By 2025, IDF estimates that 380 million people will have diabetes, with the greatest burden falling on low and middle-income countries.
