New enhanced Glucerna formula by Abbott provides benefits to help manage blood sugar

New enhanced Glucerna formula provides multiple benefits to manage blood sugar

Reformulated Glucerna helps people living with diabetes improve quality of life through nutrition and is clinically proven to help improve glucose control and heart health.

Diabetes is one of the fastest-growing global health challenges today with the number of people with diabetes expected to increase 51 per cent globally from 2019 to 2045.

In Vietnam, the prevalence of diabetes among adults aged 20-79 is affecting 3.77 million adults in 2019, and there are around two million adults living with undiagnosed diabetes.

Focusing on proven solutions – including the essential role of nutrition in diabetes management – can help decrease the burden of the disease.

“Finding the right nutritional plan for diabetes management is a critical part of ensuring quality of life but it’s not easy,” says Douglas Kuo, general manager, Abbott in Vietnam. “Glucerna’s new formulation is a simple and effective solution to help those living with diabetes adjust their lifestyles and improve their quality of life.”

For people living with diabetes, nutrition and glycemic control are two important factors to manage for optimum health, but that can be a challenge. Three out of four people living with diabetes have poor glycemic control due to a variety of factors that include dietary habits, genetic predisposition, and unhealthy lifestyle.

The dual therapeutic benefits of Glucerna’s new formulation promote GLP-1 secretion with its unique nutrients and improve insulin sensitivity for better glycemic control.

Also, it minimises blood glucose spikes and helps people reach glucose control in four weeks by reducing glycemic variability, with daily use.

The new formula has multiple advantages such as it is an improved carbohydrate blend and four times more of the nutrient myo-inositol to help manage blood sugar, or it increases levels of micronutrients such as vitamin D, calcium, iron, and zinc to help meet the nutritional needs of people living with diabetes.

Clinical studies showed that Glucerna helps improve glycemic control and support blood glucose control in the long term together with diet and exercise.