Diabetes trends in Arab nations and this Egyptian app may be the answer
Photo: Ahmed Zayed, co-founder of Mazboot, Egypt / Digital Ink
Managing a chronic disease like diabetes can be exhausting and hard to keep up with, and Ahmed Zayed saw first-hand just what happened when his father forgot to take his medicine or wasn’t motivated enough to go out for some exercise.
It was this experience with the disease that led Ahmed to co-create Mazboot, the world’s first Arabic-language diabetes management app. Mazboot works by helping users track their blood sugar along with doses of medication required, and it also connects users to a personal online consultant as well as a community of fellow sufferers.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, six countries from the Arab world are included in the top 13, measured in percentage of people between the ages of 20 and 79 who have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes sufferers account for 20 per cent of the Saudi population, 19.3 per cent of the UAE population, and 16.7 per cent of the Egyptian population.
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