Key result
The prevalence of diabetes in Pakistan reached 17.1% in 2019, necessitating a multifaceted management approach including primary prevention, education, and telemedicine to reduce the disease burden.
Why the study?
The rising incidence of diabetes heavily overburdens low-income countries like Pakistan, prompting a need to analyze current management approaches, highlight deficiencies, and discuss future strategies.
This review highlights the alarming 17.1% prevalence of diabetes in Pakistan in 2019 and emphasizes the need for multifaceted management strategies including primary prevention, education, and telemedicine.
Exposes deficiencies in Pakistan's diabetes care; leaves open targeted strategies pending prospective validation.
The rising incidence of diabetes has become one of the major health problems worldwide. It is especially overburdening low-income countries like Pakistan which ranks 4th in diabetes prevalence. The purpose of this review article is to analyze the current approach to diabetes management in Pakistan and to highlight its deficiencies. It also discusses the future strategies that can help Pakistan to reduce the rising disease burden. Information was collected from the publications which were searched on 'Google scholar' and 'PubMed'. The latest data provided by IDF has shown diabetes prevalence in Pakistan to be 17.1% in 2019; 148% higher than previous reporting. The major obstacles in the effective management of diabetes are lack of resources, societal barriers and patient related issues. In order to reduce the load of diabetes, combined efforts of government, health care professionals and patients are required. In future, diabetes education of the patients as well as HealthCare providers, use of telemedicine for the management of chronic diseases and concept of precision medicine can be applied to decrease diabetes burden in Pakistan.
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Aslam et al. (2022) conducted a review in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Management Strategies was evaluated. The prevalence of diabetes in Pakistan reached 17.1% in 2019, necessitating a multifaceted management approach including primary prevention, education, and telemedicine to reduce the disease burden.
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