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Survey highlights significant diabetes growth
20 Oct 2008
Diabetes has been highlighted as a major concern for the UK health industry, following research suggesting the number of sufferers has grown.
The survey, put together by Diabetes UK, found that the number of people who now live with the condition has grown to around 2.5 million, rising by over 167,000 since last year, the Associated Press reports.
It is noted that this figure is double the 83,000 increase found between 2006 and 2007 and according to Douglas Smallwood, chief executive of Diabetes UK, this is "alarming" news for the healthcare industry.
"Diabetes is one of the biggest health challenges facing the UK today. It causes heart disease, stroke, amputations, kidney failure and blindness and more deaths than breast and prostate cancer combined," he said.
He added that with £1 million currently being spent annually by the NHS on diabetes treatments, more needs to be done to raise awareness of diabetes and how best to treat it.
Research from Finland's University of Turku recently revealed that nasally-administered insulin offers no protection to children thought to be at high risk of developing Type 1 diabetes.
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