Dhaka, Sept. 18 -- One in 11 adults has diabetes while 8.4 million or 9.2-per cent adult population of Bangladesh have been suffering from the silent killer, a recent study said.

Of them, only 4.0-million patients were diagnosed with diabetes in 2019 while 57 per cent patients are unaware of their disease.

The number of diabetes patients has been increasing at a rate of 79 per cent in Bangladesh against the global 51 per cent.

Bangladesh is the 10th diabetes burden country in the world. Some 15 million adults could have diabetes by 2045.

In 2019, some $535million was spent treating diabetes which is expected to increase 45 per cent in 2045. Globally, diabetes patients will reach 700 million.

The findings were revealed during a press ...