{"id":35055,"date":"2018-07-27T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T03:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=35055"},"modified":"2018-07-27T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T03:40:15","slug":"diabetes-malaysia-highest-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/diabetes-malaysia-highest-asia","title":{"rendered":"2.5m Adults Have Diabetes In Malaysia, Highest In Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"
About 2.5 million adults, aged 18 and above, have diabetes in Malaysia, said the National Diabetes Institute (Nadi) executive chairman, Datuk Dr Mustaffa Embong.<\/p>\n
It is the highest rate of diabetes in Asia, and one of the highest in the world, probably next to Saudi Arabia, he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to Nadi records, statistics suggest that almost half of Malaysians do not know that they have diabetes.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the time, Type 2 diabetes does not have any symptoms at all until you develop a heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, go blind or have amputations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Diabetes, Dr Mustaffa said, is one medical condition that is called a \u201csilent killer\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this conference…new treatments for people with diabetes will be presented to address the problem,\u201d he said at the 10th Diabetes Complications Conference and Grand Rounds (DCOM 2018).<\/p>\n