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Diabetes is spreading like an epidemic and today, approximately 7.1 million adult Pakistanis suffer from it.
A patient awareness symposium was organised in connection with World Diabetes Day 2012, at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology here. The symposium was attended by healthcare professionals, people with diabetes and their families.
Major General Hamid Shafiq, professor and head of Department of Medicine at Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, took a great initiative for arranging a symposium on diabetes.
Major General Hamid Shafiq explained the types, patho-physiology and causes of diabetes. He delivered a lecture on three main types of diabetes: Type 1, Type 2 and gestational. In Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas stops producing insulin. This type is more common amongst the young and children, and the only treatment for this type is insulin. In Type 2 diabetes, the cells of the person are insulin resistant, and though the pancreas does produce insulin, increasing the glucose levels in blood. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type and can be treated with oral pills or insulin. Gestational diabetes manifests for the first time during pregnancy and usually ends with the end of gestation period. Symptoms of diabetes include frequent urination, excessive thirst, hunger and fatigue.
Other noted speakers, like Brigadier Tariq bin Sharief, classified pathologist, explained the diagnosis and daily targets for people with diabetes. He said diabetes is also known as the “mother of diseases”.Professor Saleem Qureshi of KRL Hospital, was invited to address the common myths associated with diabetes and the corresponding facts.
Notable amongst these was that diabetes is not contagious. Erum Ghafoor, senior diabetes educator and International Diabetes Federation’s expert trainer of Diabetes Conversation Maps, stressed that as insulin is a hormone, not a medicine, has no adverse side effects and is proven to be the best treatment for controlling blood sugar levels, it should be the first choice for people with diabetes and not the last resort.
Ms. Sana Ajmal, Vice President International Diabetes Federation’s Young Leaders in Diabetes, narrated her own 13 years of experiences with type 1 diabetes. She said that diabetes doesn’t kill, unless you let it, and nothing is impossible with diabetes.
Diabetes is spreading like an epidemic and today, approximately 7.1 million adult Pakistanis suffer from it.
A patient awareness symposium was organised in connection with World Diabetes Day 2012, at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology here. The symposium was attended by healthcare professionals, people with diabetes and their families.
Major General Hamid Shafiq, professor and head of Department of Medicine at Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, took a great initiative for arranging a symposium on diabetes.
Major General Hamid Shafiq explained the types, patho-physiology and causes of diabetes. He delivered a lecture on three main types of diabetes: Type 1, Type 2 and gestational. In Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas stops producing insulin. This type is more common amongst the young and children, and the only treatment for this type is insulin. In Type 2 diabetes, the cells of the person are insulin resistant, and though the pancreas does produce insulin, increasing the glucose levels in blood. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type and can be treated with oral pills or insulin. Gestational diabetes manifests for the first time during pregnancy and usually ends with the end of gestation period. Symptoms of diabetes include frequent urination, excessive thirst, hunger and fatigue.
Other noted speakers, like Brigadier Tariq bin Sharief, classified pathologist, explained the diagnosis and daily targets for people with diabetes. He said diabetes is also known as the “mother of diseases”.Professor Saleem Qureshi of KRL Hospital, was invited to address the common myths associated with diabetes and the corresponding facts.
Notable amongst these was that diabetes is not contagious. Erum Ghafoor, senior diabetes educator and International Diabetes Federation’s expert trainer of Diabetes Conversation Maps, stressed that as insulin is a hormone, not a medicine, has no adverse side effects and is proven to be the best treatment for controlling blood sugar levels, it should be the first choice for people with diabetes and not the last resort.
Ms. Sana Ajmal, Vice President International Diabetes Federation’s Young Leaders in Diabetes, narrated her own 13 years of experiences with type 1 diabetes. She said that diabetes doesn’t kill, unless you let it, and nothing is impossible with diabetes.
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