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Operation on hormones can help control
hunger and diabetes, said
Professor Karim Meeran
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ICLDC kicks-off 2013 by leading Middle East Diabetes
Conference at Arab Health Congress
January 28-29 2013
Dubai International Convention &
Exhibition Centre, Dubai
From Middle East Diabetes Health Conference at Arab Health, Dubai
UAE January 28 2013: One of world’s leading diabetes experts said that surgery can
boost efforts to defeat diabetes.
The message was delivered to delegates at the Middle East
Diabetes Conference in Dubai by Professor Karim Meeran, Imperial College London
Diabetes Centre’s (ICLDC) Consultant Specialist and Professor of Endocrinology,
Imperial College London, who outlined how bariatric gastric bypass surgery
offers hope to many people with diabetes.
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Bariatric
surgery can offer hope to
diabetes patients, said
Imperial College London
Diabetes Centre’s
Professor Karim Meeran at the
Middle East Diabetes Conference
in Dubai.
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“Research suggests that this operation works on the hormones that
control hunger and eating, and changes in these hormones cause the person to
feel less hungry and lose weight. It offers hope to many and demand is set to
explode in the next few years.”
However Professor Meeran stressed that living a healthy and active
lifestyle is the best way for a person to avoid the need for surgery and was
cautious to explain that that the operation must only be used when appropriate.
“Surgery may have risks and side effects. We must target patients
who will benefit most from the treatment. It seems that patients who are living
with diabetes and obesity benefit more than those who are obese only.”
Specialists from Abu Dhabi’s ICLDC are leading the Middle East
Diabetes Conference in Dubai this week. The two-day event on January 28 and 29
runs alongside Arab Health 2013 and takes its place among 19 specialist
conferences accredited by HAAD for Continuous Medical Examination (CME).
Professor Meeran also said that one of the aims of the conference
is to highlight preventative measures.
“Exercise is key and it’s not just us as doctors who’re involved
in promoting such strategies, actually it is more at a public health level. It
comes with how our lives are structured, how cities are engineered and the way
our time is organised.”
According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the UAE
currently ranks 11th worldwide, with 18.9 per cent of the population
living with diabetes.
“This is an important gathering of world leading experts in
diabetes. Among other topics, we are all ready to discuss the critical
challenges facing doctors treating diabetes and its related complications, and
how we can better prepare them to manage diabetes at a regional level,”
Professor Meeran concluded.
The Middle East Diabetes Conference is one of several specialist
events from ICLDC this year. As the conference got underway a group of doctors
are also taking the coveted Membership of the Royal College of Physicians
(MRCP) parts 1 and 2 at ICLDC’s Abu Dhabi facility. This follows the European
Society of Endocrinology’s Clinical Update for more than 100 practitioners,
earlier this month.
For more details, please visit http://www.arabhealthonline.com/AHCongress/Conferences1/Conf22/
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