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Glufarelin gives hope to people with diabetes

DIABETES is a serious and chronic metabolic disease, characterized by an increase in blood sugar levels. It is consistently one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the Philippines through the years. In the Philippines, Filipino adults that live with diabetes are 1 in 14.

As of 2019, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) data shows that almost four million of the then total 63.2 million Filipino adult population have diabetes with a 6.3 percent prevalence of diabetes in adults.