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). 

Controling Diabetes: Your Most Effective Tool for Good Health


Managing diabetes will make you feel better and can lower your chances of acquiring conditions including:

• Heart disease,
• Stroke,
• Eye disease that can lead to a loss of vision or even blindness, Nerve damage that may cause a loss of feeling or pain in the hands, feet, legs, or other parts of the body and lead to problems such as
• lower limb amputation or erectile dysfunction,
• Kidney failure,
• Gum disease and loss of teeth

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.

An innovative diabetes disease management approach creates a community-based network of providers in partnership for your health. Throughout your treatment and after, community-based physicians remain at the core 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.

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