But even this doesn't fix the first problem - if people aren't being tested, and aren't being diagnosed, they won't know if they have diabetes
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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