Unhealthy diets, financial problems contributing to silent diabetes in Pakistan’s youth
In this photo taken on September 19, 2023, people eat biryani at a restaurant in Karachi. — AFP/File Financial strain, double jobs and unhealthy diets are pushing people in their 20s and 30s into undiagnosed diabetes, and many only discover their condition when they land in hospitals with severely blocked heart vessels and uncontrolled blood pressure. The News reported on Sunday. Speaking at the briefing, which was held during the annual conference of the Endocrine Society of Pakistan, senior diabetologists and internal medicine specialists said that emergency wards regularly see young patients in their late twenties and early thirties with
