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Diabetes management across Specialties at Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres

Explore the diverse approaches and multidisciplinary collaboration

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Doctors at Medcare can help you manage your diabetes while fasting during Ramadan

Doctors at Medcare can help you manage your diabetes while fasting during Ramadan

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Why prediabetes is the time to take action

People seem to think diabetes is inevitable as you age. But that’s not true. Dr Yasmeen Ajaz, Specialist Endocrinologist at Medcare Hospital Al Safa, explains that it is a multifactorial disease with several risk factors that include age, obesity, sedentary lifestyle and poor diet. “While most people over the age of 60 years do have diabetes, it is not purely because of age. A combination of risk factors needs to be present for you to have diabetes as you age.”
Experts suggest that everyone above the age of 35 check their blood sugar levels even if they don’t have any risk factors. If your results are normal, then get regular screenings every three years, says Dr Archana Purshothaman, Consultant Endocrinologist at Fakeeh University Hospital, Dubai Silicon Oasis.
For people with risk factors, she has this advice: “Anyone with a body mass index higher than 25, irrespective of their age, and presenting additional risk factors such as high blood pressure, non-typical cholesterol levels, an inactive lifestyle, a history of polycystic ovary syndrome, heart disease, and/or having a close relative with diabetes must get tested to rule out any possibilities.”
When you test you might get higher-than-normal blood sugar levels, within the 100-125mg/dL range, which is diagnosed as prediabetes.
“In general, fasting blood sugar less than 100 mg/dL is normal while 100-125mg/dL is diagnosed as prediabetes,” explains Dr Mehrdad Mirouliaei, Paediatric Endocrinologist at Iranian Hospital. “And 126ml/dL or higher on two separate tests is diagnosed as diabetes.
“In people with prediabetes, Hb1AC, the average level of blood sugar over the past three months, will be between 5.7 per cent and 6.4 per cent.”
Dr Satendra Kumar Multani, Consultant Endocrinologist at Prime Medical Center – BurJuman and Deira, explains that prediabetes develops in genetically predisposed individuals if they become overweight or obese and follow sedentary lifestyle with unhealthy eating habits. “The presence of prediabetes denotes the presence of insulin resistance, which means the body requires more insulin to maintain blood glucose levels and pancreas must work more for that. Eventually, this leads to failure of B-cell function and reduction in insulin secretion, thus heralding the onset of type 2 diabetes.”
However, Dr Omran Bedir Gatee, Consultant Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi, is of the opinion that prediabetes should not be viewed as a clinical entity but rather as a risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular progression. “Prediabetes is the term used for individuals whose glucose levels do not meet the criteria for diabetes yet have abnormal carbohydrate metabolism.”
But do consult your primary care provider with the prediabetes results. They may refer you to a specialist in diabetes treatment (endocrinologist), a dietician or a certified diabetes educator.

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Medcare Hospital Al Safa calls for small lifestyle changes

At Medcare Hospital Al Safa, we plan annual diabetes screening programmes and offer special packages to help people get checked for prediabetes and diabetes.
We also offer corporate packages so that companies can take better care of their employees and help them make their health a priority.
Given the high prevalence of diabetes in the UAE, what are the three main things that people in the UAE should do to prevent diabetes?
Diabetes has both modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. It is important to tackle the modifiable risk factors to prevent diabetes. The three major risk factors for diabetes are obesity, sedentary lifestyle and poor diet.
With that in mind, the three main things that people in the UAE can do to prevent diabetes are lose weight and maintain a healthy, stable weight, exercise for at least 30 minutes every day, and eat a balanced diet with all the required nutrients and vitamins.
These will not only help prevent diabetes but will also keep other major health disorders at bay.
What are the latest drugs and treatment that are available at Medcare for diabetes patients?
Medcare Hospital Al Safa offers all treatment options to patients with diabetes whether it is medication or insulin therapy. Our nutritionists work closely with our diabetic and prediabetic patients to help them make the appropriate lifestyle changes.
We also offer bariatric surgeries to help people with obesity and associated health issues, one of which is diabetes. Our aim is to stop the progression of prediabetes to diabetes and to help diabetic patients manage their blood sugar levels.
What’re the main challenges that diabetes patients in the UAE face? What’s your advice to overcome them?
The main challenges that diabetics in the UAE face are a sedentary lifestyle and consumption of processed, sugary food.
Most people in the UAE work office jobs that do not allow them to be as active as they would like to be.
Moreover, people live high-stress lives that get in the way of eating healthy food. Most of them turn to processed, sugary food for a quick bite and before they realise it, this quick bite replaces their actual meal.
The way to overcome these challenges is to start small. Small changes in lifestyle and eating habits will go a long way.
Working out only one day a week is still better than not working out at all. Taking baby steps towards better health is the way to overcome the challenges that diabetics in the UAE face.
Walk in and avail your free screening package from November 14 until November 30 at Medcare Hospital Al Safa

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Expo 2020 Dubai: Women can schedule mammograms before first dose of vaccine

Webinar on breast cancer, diabetes held at India Pavilion

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