Diabetes Treatment Programs

Diabetes is a complex disease whose care may seem overwhelming to diabetic patients, their families, or to people at risk of developing diabetes. There are three main types of diabetes; type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. You may have a health risk factor for diabetes if you:

• Are overweight, 
• Have a family history of diabetes,
• Metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance),
• High blood pressure,
• Abnormal cholesterol levels,
• A history of gestational diabetes,
• Polycystic ovary disease,
• Habitually inactive,
• Or have a history of vascular disease (such as stroke).

Managing diabetes means paying close attention to and sometimes making changes to how you live. Your doctor will ask you to eat healthy, be more active, lose weight if you need to, and quit smoking. He or she may also prescribe one or more medicines.

Control Diabetes: Your Most Effective Tool for Good Health
Taking good care of diabetes will make you feel better and can lower your chances of acquiring conditions including:

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It may seem like a lot to do. But keeping your blood sugar under control now can help reduce the risk of health problems from diabetes later. The experts who partner with WorldPath are global leaders in understanding the science and treating diabetics like you or your loved ones.

The partners of WorldPath Medicine are here to help you manage your diabetes and live a long and active life. Every person who has diabetes has different needs. Our partners will help craft a treatment plan that is best for you. Diabetes affects almost every part of the body and good diabetes care requires a team of health care providers. WorldPath partners include doctors, diabetes educators, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, mental health workers, eye specialists, foot specialists, dentists, and social workers , all with strong experience working with the inter-related needs of diabetic patients.

Our partners, including those at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) are creating new collaborative clinical practice approaches designed to prevent and to treat diabetes and complications from diabetes. Examples include:

• A diabetes and cardiovascular disease program designed to leverage BIDMC's historic strength in cardiovascular care and to address the fact that 80% of patients with diabetes die from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. Work on this program has already begun with BIDMC clinicians partnering with Joslin to develop a proprietary clinical protocol algorithm aimed at screening patients for heart disease. This extraordinary new screening tool will help identify patients with diabetes who are at risk for heart disease allowing for expedited referral to cardiology care at BIDMC.
• The most advanced eye care for those with diabetes at the Joslin Clinic's Beetham Eye Institute, including the only diagnostic retinal evaluation service offering patients a pain-free and non-dilated diabetic eye evaluation.
• Institute, including the only diagnostic retinal evaluation service offering patients a pain-free and non-dilated diabetic eye evaluation
• Increased focus on kidney and pancreas transplantation at BIDMC, as well as clinical trials of islet cell transplantation
• Programs focused on high-risk pregnancy (gestational and pre-gestational diabetes)
• Programs aimed at obesity, a major risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes.

This is an innovative diabetes disease management approach; a community-based network of providers in partnership for your health. Throughout your treatment and after, community-based physicians remain the heart of your care process.

As a patient, community-based physicians are able to refer you to other partner physicians or care providers for assessments, second opinions, evaluations, treatment plans, etc. All physicians who are involved in your care will receive updates and complete communications from fellow physicians who participate in your care – communication, both between providers and to you, the patient, is an important tool for effective treatment and WorldPath values its use to maximize your care.

A Global Community of Physicians
WorldPath takes communication an additional step: we make sure that your physician in your country of origin is also fully aware of all treatments that take place so that when you return home, the continuity of care remains because your treating physician is able to take full advantage of the community-based system.

If have additional questions or would like to speak with a diabetes specialist about a specific issue, please Contact Us to learn more about your options.