Dr Emran Khan, an endocrinologist at King’s College Hospital Dubai, provides an overview of the prevalence of diabetes in the UAE after studies revealed that around 17 percent of the population suffers from the disease. Moreover, Dr Khan analyzes the country’s efforts to combat the disease and the role that the pharmaceutical industry can play going forward.
About 38.7 million adults between the ages of 20 to 79 [in the MENA region] are currently diabetic, which means that, by 2040, about 82 million people in the region could become diabetic
