Why is it unsupportable? This is whypic.twitter.com/0no3JnVbyq
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But something else we're seeing in Western Sydney particularly is an issue I haven't really touched on yet Gestational diabetes And here, rates are SKYROCKETINGpic.twitter.com/jZjK3GvSnY
This graph shows raw numbers, but the number of live births in Western Sydney has only slightly increased in this time, which means the rate has almost tripled in a decadepic.twitter.com/6WQGCyPTOP
But when we look at causes, we found something interesting: Unlike type 2, the increase is not predominantly due to weight gain!
I'll give you a hint - every woman who is pregnant has been given an oral glucose tolerance test in our region for a long time
While that poll is filling in (remember to vote!), I'll tell you why it's important Basically, gestational diabetes is a red flag for future rates of the diseasepic.twitter.com/yV0hSzFByl
Obviously you have to treat pregnant women, and this is a big focus. But increasing rates of gestational diabetes pretty much guarantee that our rates will keep increasing no matter what we do
The main drivers? Interestingly, what we've found is that it's likely to be related largely to a change in the ethnicity of our population
Something many doctors aren't aware of is that a variety of minority populations (such as people of SE Asian descent) may be at much higher risk of developing diabetes, and at a lower weight too
Now on to some of my own work. Given that the estimated POPULATION prevalence of diabetes is ~9%, what would the prevalence IN HOSPITAL be?
Another hint: this is a much sicker population of people than your general person
So everyone seems to be going high - which is good. Our figures put the proportion at roughly 20%, which is similar across the country
But this is different for different places in the hospital. For example, what's the prevalence in a cardiology ward?
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