The article discusses the type 2 diabetes public awareness campaign launched by the organization Diabetes UK in September 2013. Figures are provided on the number of diabetics in Great Britain and the amount of money being spent on diabetes by the British National Health Service (NHS) in 2011. ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a serious and costly disease. The chronic complications of diabetes mellitus include accelerated development of cardiovascular diseases, end-stage renal disease, loss of visual acuity, and limb amputations. All of these complications contribute to the excess morbidity and mor...
According to NHS (2014), „A recent study has estimated that 35.3% of adults in the UK now have pre-diabetes (also known as borderline diabetes).” A country with one of the highest prevalences of diabetes is also America: „One in four Americans has either pre-diabetes or the full...
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Leave-one-out analysis of the bidirectional effects of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD). (A) Analysis of T2DM on UC; (B) Analysis of T2DM on CD; (C) Analysis of UC on 2DM; (D) Analysis of CD on 2DM. Full size image Scatte...
UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) Group. Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33). Lancet. 1998;352(9131):837-853.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 15. Kaul S, Diamond...
About 10% of total UK NHS expenditure goes on treating diabetes, and international figures suggest that medical costs for people with diabetes are twofold to threefold greater than the average for age and sex matched people without diabetes.1 Application of current clinical guidelines to reduce ...
Genetically predicted higher BMI, waist circumference, and liability to type 2 diabetes were associated with elevated risk of gallstone disease in UK Biobank data, FinnGen consortium data, and meta-analysis (P < .001) (Figures 2 and 3). The combined ORs of gallstones were 1.63 (95% CI, ...
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Type 2 and other forms of diabetes in 0-30 year olds: a hospital based study in Leeds, UK. Arch Dis Child. 2003;88(8):676-679.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 38. Schober E, Waldhoer T, Rami B, Hofer S; Austrian Diabetes Incidence Study Group. Incidence and time trend of type 1 ...