I mostly deal with type 2 diabetes in my work, so I'll mostly be looking at that, but worth noting that type 1 is also important!
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Diabetes is on the rise! This infographic from the International Diabetes Federation gives you an idea of the massive increase in rates of diabetes across the globepic.twitter.com/dRqzk3sL9Q
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The current estimates put the rate of diabetes at about 5% globally, or 1 in 20 people, living with diabetes That's 463 million people all up
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But, an important point! We know that 20-30% of people with type 2 diabetes are living undiagnosed This makes the figures even more startlingpic.twitter.com/5K0QL8CtZH
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I see this in my own work. My team has previously estimated that 33% of people with diabetes in our local area are living undiagnosed, and a paper we're putting together now puts the figure at about 20%
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We can also see the rate of diabetes increasing in real time in our data (from our recent paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168822718318862 …)pic.twitter.com/Ku9UC2y9Xi
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So, lots of people have diabetes By 2050, the estimate is up to 10% of everyone in the world What can we do about that?
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Our argument here is based on a few stages, but the first thing is to improve diagnosis of the disease Remember - 20-30% undiagnosed! You can't treat people who don't even know that they are sick
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After that, there's a range of treatment options However, as with any chronic disease, the big savings are in PREVENTION
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There's good evidence that a large portion of type 2 diabetes (~50%) is preventable That means we could reduce those scary numbers significantly!pic.twitter.com/lLwYzUAgv7
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