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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

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Image from Berita Daily<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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