Sidra Medicine diabetes research to help establish National Diabetes Registry in Qatar – The Peninsula

Sidra Medicine diabetes research to help establish National Diabetes Registry in Qatar – The Peninsula

Doha: Researchers and clinicians at Sidra Medicine have conducted comprehensive studies related to the epidemiology, genetic landscape and causes of diabetes in Qatar.

The studies will pave the way for the implementation of present and future therapies including precision medicine solutions to address different forms of diabetes affecting children and young people.

One of the studies, published in The Journal of Diabetes Investigation and funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) was the first comprehensive study related to the incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Qatar. Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic metabolic condition with hyperglycemia resulting from inadequate production of insulin or resistance to insulin action.

Prof. Khalid Hussain, Division Chief of Endocrinology at Sidra Medicine “The global burden of diabetes mellitus is rapidly increasing, with an estimated average increase of 3 to 4 per cent in prevalence every year. This study is the first of its kind in the MENA region to systematically recruit every child with diabetes mellitus in Qatar, from birth to 18 years, and accurately classify the underlying biochemical and genetic causes in each child.

“It found a high incidence and prevalence of both type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes in children in Qatar; with Qatar having