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More awareness on diabetes required

DAB tells press conference ahead of World Diabetes Day today

Staff Correspondent
Instead of only on controlling diabetes, more programmes are required on prevention and raising awareness on its risks, Bangladeshi experts on the disease told a DAB press conference yesterday.
Because of fast growing urbanisation, changing lifestyles, consumption of unhygienic food and lack of laborious work, Bangladesh is seeing an alarming rise of diabetics, they added.
"If necessary steps are taken, diabetes, especially type-2, can be controlled in up to 70 percent of the cases," said Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (DAB) President ProfAK Azad Khan.
According to a 2012 International Diabetes Federation
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(IDF) report, there are around 8.4 million Bangladeshis with diabetes while 371 million suffer globally.
Without successful measures, Bangladesh's figures will double by 2030, he said, adding that only 28 percent of Bangladeshi patients are getting the required treatment.
Against this backdrop, Bangladesh, alongside 160 nations, is observing World Diabetes Day today themed "Diabetes: Know the Complications; Diabetes: Protect Our Future".
Marking the day, DAB will hold a three-day awareness raising programme, said the organisers at the press conference in the capital's Bangladesh Institute of Research & Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic
Disorders (Birdem).
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also conveyed separate messages on the day.
"The risk of a heart attack and visual impairment is three time higher for diabet-ics," said DAB Vice-President Prof AR Khan.
The risk of contracting the disease is also high for those who do desk jobs for prolonged periods while 70 to 80 percent of amputees were also found suffering, he added.
However, there is no statistic regarding the annual deaths in Bangladesh from diabetes, he said.
Prof Azad said the government till date took no significant action over a draft copy of a national prevention policy they submitted several years ago.