The Elipse Gastric Balloon, by Allurion has acquired its second approval from the UAE Ministry of Health. It is the world’s first and solely weight reduction system that requires no surgical procedure, endoscopy, or anaesthesia. Available throughout clinics within the United Arab Emirates, the Elipse Program helps long-term weight reduction by way of a revolutionary gastric balloon that creates a sense of fullness by taking over house within the abdomen, offering sufferers with the prospect to take a break from weight-reduction plan and that every one too acquainted feeling of starvation.
With two in three individuals obese within the UAE, weight-reduction plan itself isn’t sufficient for a lot of and the Elipse Gastric Balloon, by Allurion will proceed to assist deal with the nation’s dangerously excessive weight problems numbers and rising weight concern.
Obesity is the main well being downside within the UAE, the place the vast majority of the inhabitants is battling with their weight. In 2019 Zayed Military Hospital performed a survey additional elevating the seriousness of the weight problems downside, highlighting that 70% of the Emirati male inhabitants have been overweight.* Furthermore, the latest research from the United States discovered the prevalence of diabetes in people aged between 20 and 44 was 3.3 %. Overall, the UAE ranked highest in diabetes (4.7 %) and hypertension and got here in a really shut second to the USA for weight problems.
