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The 6th Emirates Diabetes & Endocrine Congress (EDEC) opens today at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre, United Arab Emirates. EDEC 2016 is a global occasion which will run for three days for healthcare professionals to go over the ever enhancing difficulties and recent advances in the management of diabetes.

EDEC is arranged by Emirates Diabetes Society (EDS) who intends to educate the health care neighborhood and allow professionals in providing patient care, counselling and assistance about diabetes and also develops regional standards for the management with a multidisciplinary approach.

EDS for the last five years is dedicated to developing a regional platform to unite the healthcare specialists and is focused on developing the abilities and knowledge of the Middle East healthcare neighborhoods. With the support of Endocrine Society from USA, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, Dubai Health Authority and other local and worldwide health care companies, EDEC 2016 will host over 3,000 endocrinologists, Diabetologists, internist, paediatricians, cardiologists, nephrologists, gynaecologists, pharmacists, nurses and academics from the area and beyond.

According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), Diabetes declared the lives of more than 4 million individuals globally. 387 million are living with type 2 diabetes and are on the rise worldwide. This figure is anticipated to strike 592 million by 2035. In IDF's worldwide diabetes league table, UAE is ranked 16th, with 19 % of the UAE population coping with the condition.

These stats indicate that the area has high risk aspects for diabetes. A few of the contributing aspects are inactive way of life and eating practices which trigger an increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes. Attributing danger aspects for diabetic patients are generally neuropathy, nephropathy and retinopathy including heart disease which is approximated to be approximately 6 times higher than a non-diabetic individual.

This year, EDEC will have more than 20 worldwide stellar professors with 13 different sessions. Amongst which the new data from Dubai existing by EDS is something to anticipate along with state-of-art lectures on young adults' diabetes, innovation advances, weight problems, paediatric endocrinology, heart diseases and genetics will likewise be talked about among others. The EDEC 2016 programme has actually been approved with 18 CME hours by the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) College of Medicine and Health Sciences, 13.5 CME hours by Ministry of Health and 16 CME hours by Dubai Health Authority.

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