Diabetes consultant at Dubai Hospital, head of the Emirates Diabetes Association, Dr. Fathia Al-Awadhi, stressed the need to develop future plans to prevent diabetes, and to devise state-of-the-art prevention programs to address the disease.
Al-Awadhi said during a scientific session hosted by the Ramadan Council of Deputy Chief of Police and Public Security in Dubai, Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, in the presence of the Director General of the Financial Supervision Authority, Abdullah Mohammed Ghabash. The latest survey of about 5000 families in Dubai to show the proportion of people with diabetes, In the country reached 17.2% at the population level, and the rate of infection among residents was 15.48%.
She pointed out that the proportion of injured citizens is relatively high, among the GCC countries, and warned of the danger of increase, pointing to the high rate of obesity among citizens, amounting to 66.9%, which calls for sounding the alarm, because it may be one of the causes of diabetes caused by the system Food is wrong.
The doctors involved in the meeting called for the need for people to be aware of the correct diet, lifestyle change and healthy diet. Many unhealthy foods increase the incidence of diabetes.