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Unravelling the stress-to-diabetes domino

Ali Hashemi November 14, 2023

The shadow of diabetes looms large across the sun-soaked dunes and bustling cities of the UAE, with 19 percent of the population already afflicted and many more skirting the periphery of pre-diabetes, unaware of the tsunami of health risks awaiting them. In this landscape of prosperity, the silent yet profound impact of stress weaves its narrative, casting a domino effect that topples well-being and stirs the specter of metabolic dysfunction. Against this backdrop, more attention

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UUAE Healthy Future Study

A closer look at the UAE Healthy Future Study

Ann Marie McQueen November 7, 2023

We all hear about the risks and high rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke in the Emirates – but what can be done about it?  A team that has grown to 30 researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi have been hard at work answering that question, working on a groundbreaking scientific effort focused on Emirati health. The UAE Healthy Future Study aims to determine how genetics, environment and living patterns of Emiratis contribute to chronic

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Need help navigating your child’s diabetes diagnosis?

Harriet Shephard July 21, 2023

Dubai resident Pamela Durant discovered that her son had type 1 diabetes when he was just 20 months old. The difficulties that she and her family faced then prompted her to abandon her corporate career in healthcare, and later launch the diabetes community and education platform DiapointME. Speaking to the Livehealthy podcast, the wellness and lifestyle coach covers rarely discussed, yet important, subjects such as the judgement and shame that surrounds diabetes, and why managing

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men's health Movember

Men’s health mantra: ‘Get that help early’

Ben East July 6, 2023

Men often like to think of themselves as strong and macho, to the point where there’s a stigma attached to dealing with health concerns. And it sets them back, even 30 years after US President Bill Clinton launched a week devoted to men’s health, which has since grown to the entire month of June. That sparked a special call by Dr Vikas Mehta, a physician at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London, to highlight how important awareness of preventable

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This one thing causes disease’

Ann Marie McQueen June 1, 2023

Dr Sara Suliman is a consultant endocrinologist and diabetologist at the Imperial College London Diabetes Center in Abu Dhabi. Before taking up her position 11 years ago, she studied at the world-renowned Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and earned her Phd on insulin resistance and obesity at Oxford University. She is head of the Imperial College Diabetes Center’s Genetic Service Management of Obesity Service department. Away from her day job, in 2020 she was

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