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
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Every year, about 17.9 million people die as a result of cardiovascular diseases. According to the World Health Organisation, four out of five such deaths are due to heart attacks and strokes. On the occasion of World Heart Day, Reach by Gulf News sits down with cardiac experts at Medcare Hospital Al Safa to learn more about how to promote heart health and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Here’re some excerpts from the interviews with the doctors.