DIDE

The Durbanville Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology (DIDE) is a specialist healthcare practice focused on comprehensive diabetes and endocrine care. Its team supports people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, adolescents with diabetes, patients using insulin pumps, and those with rarer forms of the condition. The practice also aims to prevent diabetes and reduce cardiometabolic complications, providing sustainable care with support from local dieticians and diabetes educators, as well as nearby ophthalmologists and podiatrists.

DIDE’s services cover a broad range of endocrine and related health needs, including thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, parathyroid and neuroendocrine disorders; endocrine oncology; osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease; and endocrine causes of hypertension. Other areas include obesity management, bariatric surgery evaluations, lipid abnormalities, growth and puberty concerns, endocrinology and pregnancy, sexual health and fertility, and rare genetic endocrine syndromes. The institute also assists patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a complex condition associated with elevated androgen levels, irregular or absent menstrual cycles, and insulin resistance.