Today is #WorldDiabetesDay so here's a thread of some diabetes (mostly T2DM) facts and figures and why you should care about the disease
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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
After that, there's a range of treatment options However, as with any chronic disease, the big savings are in PREVENTION
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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