Diving into The UAE Healthy Future Study

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Diving into The UAE Healthy Future Study
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We all hear about the rate and risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke in the Emirates – but what can be done about it? The UAE Healthy Future Study is a prospective cohort study that aims to uncover risk factors for some of the most chronic diseases in the Emirates, and determine how genetics, environment and living patterns of individuals contribute. Since 2016 its researchers have built a cohort of 14,294 participants, created more

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UUAE Healthy Future Study

A closer look at the UAE Healthy Future Study

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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Are our health care systems really helping us?

In a recent exercise, on our quest to find out what support our health systems offer in improving our overall health and wellbeing, we contacted some of the best internationally recognized hospitals to seek some help.  We approached these facilities with one question: ‘I would like to start taking care of my health. Is there anybody we can speak to that can help with reviewing my current lifestyle choices and provide me with some support

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This one thing causes disease’

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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