<\/span><\/h2>\nDiabetes symptoms in Urdu and English are the same \u2014 frequent urination, excessive thirst, fatigue, blurred vision, and slow healing \u2014 and recognising them early is what separates a manageable condition from a life-changing complication. Pakistan now has the highest diabetes prevalence in the world, but the disease responds well to early diet, exercise, and medication when caught in time. A home glucose check, an HbA1c test once a year, and a timely visit to an endocrinologist are three habits that genuinely save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Atlas 2024, around 34.5 million Pakistani adults are living with diabetes, and the country now has the highest age-standardised diabetes prevalence in the world at 31.4 percent. Roughly one in three adults in Pakistan is affected, and an estimated 8.9 million people are undiagnosed, per The Lancet Diabetes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":104858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3362],"tags":[8686,8684,8685,8690],"class_list":["post-104862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","placeholder-for-hentry","category-chronic-conditions","tag-blood-sugar","tag-diabetes","tag-pakistan","tag-symptoms"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104864,"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104862\/revisions\/104864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marham.pk/healthhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}