PDF Ebook Diabetes in the UK 2009: Key statistics on diabetes
This report looks at diabetes in the UK today. It contains statistics about who is affected and how. Diabetes is serious. If left untreated, it can lead to heart disease, stroke, blindness, and kidney failure. Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly. There are two main types of diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes develops if the body cannot produce any insulin. Insulin is a hormone which helps the glucose to enter the cells where it is used as fuel by the body. Type 1 diabetes usually appears before the age of 40. It is the least common of the two main types and accounts for around 10 per cent of all people with diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes develops when the body can still make some insulin, but not enough, or when the insulin that is produced does not work properly (known as insulin resistance). In most cases this is linked with being overweight. This type of diabetes usually appears in people over the age of 40, though in South Asian and African-Caribbean people, it often appears after the age of 25. However, recently, more children are being diagnosed with the condition, some as young as seven. Type 2 diabetes is the more common of the two main types and accounts for around 90 per cent of people with diabetes.
Most health experts agree that the UK is facing a huge increase in the number of people with diabetes. Since 1996 the number of people diagnosed with diabetes has increased from 1.4 million to 2.5 million. By 2025 it is estimated that over four million people will have diabetes. Most of these cases will be Type 2 diabetes, because of our ageing population and rapidly rising numbers of overweight and obese people.
The figures are alarming and confirm that diabetes is one of the biggest health challenges facing the UK today. If we are to curb this growing health crisis and see a reduction in the number of people dying from diabetes and its complications, we need to increase awareness of the risks, bring about wholesale changes in lifestyle, improve self-management among people with diabetes and improve access to integrated diabetes care services.
Contents
Introduction
How common is diabetes?
Global
UK
- Diagnosed
Undiagnosed
Prevalence
Type 1 and Type 2
Adults: England
Adults: Scotland
Adults: Wales
Adults: Northern Ireland
Children: Type 1
Children: Type 2
Who is at risk of diabetes?
Genes
Ethnicity
Obesity
Deprivation
Gestational diabetes
The impact
Cardiovascular disease
Kidney disease
Eye disease
Neuropathy
Amputation
Depression
Sexual dysfunction
Complications in pregnancy
Life expectancy and mortality
Financial costs
Notes
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PDF Ebook Diabetes in the UK 2009: Key statistics on diabetes
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