Diabetes affects 1.8 million people in UK
There are now 1.8 million people with diabetes in the UK, according to new statistics released by Diabetes UK.
The charity says that this reflects an increase of 400,000 people in
eight years. Of the 1.8 million almost 250,000 people have type 1 diabetes
and just over 1.5 million have type 2 diabetes.
The figures are published in a report by Diabetes UK, which also estimates
that there are up to a million people with type 2 diabetes who have not
yet been diagnosed.
Douglas Smallwood, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “The challenge
now is to ensure that all people with diabetes are diagnosed early and
treated effectively.”
The report, entitled “Diabetes in the UK 2004”, also looks
at the impact of the
long-term effects of diabetes.
The report is available here
MeReC Briefing Diabetes
is the subject of the latest issues of MeReC Briefing, which consider
the management of blood glucose (issue
25 PDF (460K))
and of cardiovascular risk factors (issue 26 PDF (460K)).
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