And we have new data (upcoming study plug!) that shows this even more starkly. The poorer your neighborhood, the more likely you are to have diabetes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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Another hint: this is a much sicker population of people than your general person
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So everyone seems to be going high - which is good. Our figures put the proportion at roughly 20%, which is similar across the country
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But this is different for different places in the hospital. For example, what's the prevalence in a cardiology ward?
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