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New Diabetes Drug – Facts Vs Misinformation – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #838 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #838 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. A friend of mine forwarded the following text to me yesterday. It is a very catchy message for diabetic patients as it promises a revolutionary ‘treatment’ for diabetes. If you remember, I had done a blog showing that Pakistan had become number #1 country in the incidence of diabetes with over 38% population suffering from it. Pakistanis are also averse to standard treatment of diabetes and keep looking for miracles which never happen. For us, this kind of message is not just misleading, it is killing.  Let me tell me that this entire message is a pack of lies, misinform

Probable Reasons for Diabetes Explosion in Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #818 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #818 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Photo Credit: Zubair Abbasi Photo Credit: Mikhail Nilov My last post about Pakistan becoming number #1 in diabetes prevalence raised quite a bit of interest, surprise, concern, and disbelief. I also mentioned that obesity in our population is much lower than many other countries, so there would be other probable reasons for such high prevalence.  I am taking from two published research articles and a news report for the German publication DW. Research article titled ‘Type 2 diabetes prevalence in Pakistan: what is driving this? Clu

Pakistan Becomes Number One in Diabetes Prevalence – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #817 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #817 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Alesia Kozik Photo Credit: Mikhail Nilov Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk The country rankings of diabetes prevalence have been published by Wisevoter and Pakistan has earned the dubious distinction of becoming number one in diabetes prevalence at 30.8%. It means that almost every third person in the country is diabetic.  To put it in perspective, global average rate of diabetes is 8.8%. On the contrary, the incidence of obesity in Pakistan is only 8.6% against a global average of 19.1%. The point I wish to raise here is that the primary reason for di