The news report yesterday ' Wednesday 14 December' in the Daily Express highlighted how many people with diabetes die from the condition and its complications. 24,000 is a shocking amount of people and not all of them would be older people. This reasons given are mixed with some not receiving the full amount of care by the NHS and others simple not managing their diabetes. Women according to the report are more likely to not manage their diabetes were men are better than this. Has this something to do with the life responsibilities that some women have i.e. house, children, self etc? Or is it simply because managing diabetes is not on the top of their priority list. I would be interested to hear what you have to say about this.
Two important statistics to leave you with.
1. The Express states ' up to 75,000 diabetes die in England every year'
2. The National Diabetes Audit found almost '450,000 children and younger adults with diabetes have high risk blood sugar levels that could lead to severe complications'
According to various reports this is only going to get worse.
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