(I should mention that in this thread I'm mostly talking about type 2 diabetes, which makes up ~95% of people with the disease. Type 1 is a different beast entirely!)
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Next we went out to a group of general practices across quite a large geographic area We implemented a similar testing regimen (people who were already getting bloods had an HbA1c added) And guess what? We found the EXACT SAME NUMBERSpic.twitter.com/ZfPMnlBMFU
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Even worse, there's every indication that the rate of diabetes is increasing, although it's hard to tell if this is because more people have diabetes or because we are getting better at identifying itpic.twitter.com/kb4valHU5J
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What does this all mean? Well, firstly, there are probably a lot more people with diabetes than we thought
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The exact figure is hard to know, but we estimate it to be between 11-13%
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The rate of diabetes also seems to be growing at quite a scary rate Regardless of whether this is due to improved testing or a true increase in the number of people who have the disease, it means we are going to see more diabetes in hospital and primary care
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Last but not least, it shows that targeted testing for diabetes can be a good way to improve detection
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