ARC: Association of Rheumatology Concerns

12/10/2025

The theme for World Arthritis Day 2025 is “Achieve Your Dreams.” This theme focuses on encouraging individuals living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) to pursue their goals and believe in themselves

12/10/2025

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The theme for World Arthritis Day 2025 is “Achieving Your Dreams.” ✨ This video brings together the voices and dreams of our community, showing the hopes, go...

10/07/2025

Every day is a fight, but today we raise our voices together. 💪 Join us in honoring the strength, resilience, and stories of those living with chronic diseases.

10/05/2025

📢 It´s World Lupus Day!

Let’s raise awareness about lupus, an autoimmune disease that can impact every part of the body.

It’s a challenging condition that often goes unnoticed, but together, we can shine a light on the struggles and support those affected.

Education and advocacy are key to improving management of this RMD.

10/05/2025

21/04/2025

PCOS- POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME

Common symptoms include excessive hair growth (affecting 60%), acne (20%), and scalp hair loss (5%); irregular and infrequent periods (often

15/04/2025

TYPE 5 DIABETES

Despite my involvement as a specialist in diabetes for over 15 years, I never cease to be amazed by the resurgence of new information on newer types of diabetes. I recently came across Diabetes Type 5, an entity, I had not heard of before.

Type 5 diabetes, previously known as malnutrition-related diabetes, has now been officially recognised, during the recent International Diabetes Federation’s (IDF’s) World Diabetes Congress, held in Bangkok, Thailand. In January 2025.

Type 5 Diabetes was first described in Jamaica in 1955 and was labelled as malnutrition-related-diabetes. It is seen mostly in young men in low- and middle income, who have a body mass index (BMI) < 19 kg/m2 .

People with this form of diabetes have a defect in insulin secretion and therefore have a lower total insulin secretion.

The patients are typically young and thin, which will make one suspect that they had type 1 diabetes, which can be managed with daily insulin injection. However, insulin did not help these patients and in some cases, caused very low blood sugar level.

They are often misdiagnosed as having type 1 diabetes, but there are some clear differences between type 1 and 5:
1.People with type 1 diabetes develop ketones in their urine (ketonuria) or have high ketones level in their blood (ketosis) when their glucose level are high. People with type 5, however, did not develop high ketones despite high blood glucose levels.
2. People with type 1 diabetes have high insulin requirements, but patients with type 5, needs much smaller dose of insulin. High insulin dose can prove fatal in some of the patients.

When compared to type 2 diabetes, these patients phenotypically look different. People with type 2 diabetes are typically obese, as commonly seen in the Mauritian population, and accounts for the majority of diabetes cases in developing countries. People with type 2 have significantly higher visceral adipose tissue and fatty deposition in their liver compared to people in the type 5 group.

Though there are no clear guidelines yet about how to treat these patients, it has been suggested that a very small amount of insulin combined with oral medications may be the most effective way. Furthermore, it is proposed that their nutrition should include much higher amounts of protein and lower amounts of carbohydrates.

13/03/2025

10/03/2025

We are very sorry to inform you of the passing of our Dearest Member Mrs Mirella Marimootoo.Please find the details of the funeral in the attached message.
Our Sincere Condolences to Mirella's Families and Friends from the ARC Family.Thank you

12/10/2024

Dearest Member of ARC.
Today we mark the "World Arthritis Day 2024" .The theme for this year is " Informed Choices: Better Oucomes.
We are not physically organising any event but the awareness campaign continues in the media and the work goes on by continuing to work with the relevant Authorities to improve the health services in our Hospitals.
Our Members are also benefitting from many discounted facilities in different health areas such as blood tests and admission in private clinic.
We wish you good health and we are always here to give you the required Support. Thanking you
Ashan Purmessur