Our goal:

Reduce cardiovascular disease, diabetes type 2 and their complications in our community.*

  • Cardiovascular disease can be broken down into coronary artery disease (heart), cerebrovascular disease (brain) and peripheral vascular disease (veins and arteries).

    These include heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, ischaemic cardiomyopathies and critical limb ischaemia.

  • 1. Screening for cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome through medical aid wellness and screening programmes, yearly medicals and general consultations.

    2. Identify patients with high 10 year risk and/or life time risk for cardiovascular disease.

    3. Implement Primary Prevention Strategies.

    4. Implement Secondary Prevention Strategies.

    5. Health advocacy measures through social media.

    6. Monitor patients enrolled on primary prevention and secondary prevention programmes.

    7. Report on patients enrolled in these programmes.

  • During general consultations, yearly medicals or wellness consultations.

    We screen patients by measuring their weight, height, BMI, waist circumference, blood glucose levels, lipid levels, blood pressure, social habits, exercise routines and eating habits.

    We use the Framingham Risk Score as well as the ASCVD Risk Estimator Plus for assessing our patients 10 year risk or lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease.

*Refer to our strategic goals 2022 for our measurable outcomes.

 

What is metabolic syndrome?

According to the IDF and NCEP ATP-III metabolic syndrome is a combination of any three of the five features.

1) Increased waist circumference

2) Raised triglycerides

3) Low HDL (good) cholesterol

 

4) High blood pressure

5) Abnormal fasting blood glucose

 

  • People with metabolic syndrome have increased risk of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes) and type 2 diabetes.

  • Primary prevention is focused on firstly, identifying patients with metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular risk factors and/or high risk for cardiovascular disease.

    Secondly, managing these patients by initiating clinician-patient discussions and then introducing risk lowering interventions, through lifestyle changes and medication.

    The aim is to reduce the incidence (new cases) of cardiovascular disease and diabetes type 2.

  • Secondary prevention is focused on managing patients identified with cardiovascular disease and or diabetes type 2 in order to reduce further morbidity (“suffering” or “new events”) and mortality (“death”).

 

Meet the team

Chandré Prangley

Chandré completed her B.Sc. Dietetics and Post graduate Diploma at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and from there moved to numerous places in South Africa where she gained experience in government as well as private hospitals and private practices.

She now has a private practice in Paarl and Bellville and has a special interest in weight, disease management, gut health, psychology and sport nutrition and advocating mindfulness and intuitive eating. She has a great love for food and working with people.  And has a passion for hosting online nutrition webinars, writing blogs and nutrition related articles in providing evidence-based information on nutritional related topics to her patients.

A quote I love to reflect on is: “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well”-Voltaire. “We need to be the best version of ourselves, take care of our health, eat well, be active and love ourselves and others. And I feel so fortunate to play a part in assisting patients with changing their lifestyles to make it a sustainable and healthy journey.”

Corné Pauw

Corné is an Independent Biokineticist and has completed a BSc Human Movement Science (NWU) as well as a BSc Hons. Biokinetics (UWC). He currently runs his private practice in a high performance centre in Bellville, Cape Town.

I am passionate about all things movement and fully believe that movement is life. In my own life I have experienced the benefits of movement post injury and in general life and I love sharing my passion and knowledge with others. 

Scientifically based exercise has been proven to be a benefit for not only chronic conditions, but also as a way to manage pain in joints by strengthening the body and helping the body protect itself.  

I don’t believe in quick fixes but in lifestyle adjustment, my doors are open to all. 

Let’s walk this new road together.  

Dr Daniel Hope

Dr Hope is a General Practitioner and lover of all things medicine. He completed his Medical Degree at Stellenbosch University and is currently completing an MSc Clinical Epidemiology at SU. He works from his private practice in Durbanville, Cape Town as well as in Cape Town City Centre for Corporate Wellness.

I have seen the far reaching effects of obesity, smoking, alcohol use, sedentary lifestyles and poor sleep in my practice. The COVID-19 pandemic was enough to show us that seemingly healthy people on the outside had inflammatory and/or pro-inflammatory states within.

Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle are certainly the silent villain in modern medicine and as the name suggests they result from poor lifestyle choices. Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes Type 2, Hyperlipidaemia, Hypercholesterolaemia and Hypertension are all such diseases.

My goal with Metabolic is to prevent cardiovascular disease and diabetes type 2 in as many patients as possible and to appropriately mange patients with established disease.