Britain should brace itself for a diabetes "explosion" with the number of people suffering from the disease set to almost double within two decades...

Four million Britons will have diabetes by 2025
Telegraph article

Extracts:

"More than four million people in the country will be diagnosed as diabetic by 2025, researchers estimate.

The majority are expected to develop the disease needlessly because of lifestyle factors such as obesity, the charity Diabetes UK warns.

Around 80 per cent of those diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, the most common kind, are overweight.

But Diabetes UK warns that diabetes can also lead to extremely serious complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney disease and amputation.

The NHS already spends around £10,000 per minute treating diabetes and its complications, the charity estimates.

Simon O'Neill, from Diabetes UK said: "We should be worried about this predicted diabetes explosion.

"These new figures are truly shocking and confirm that diabetes is one of the main health challenges facing the UK today.

"Awareness and prevention are crucial if we want to avert this future health crisis and see the number of people with Type 2 diabetes fall.

"We need to encourage people to reduce their risk of developing the condition by eating healthily, maintaining a healthy weight and leading an active lifestyle.""

" The figures were released to mark the start of Diabetes Week, which aims to highlight risk factors for the disease, and are based on calculations derived from a study into the prevalence of diabetes by Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory."

See also http://healthintelligence.bmj.com/hi/do/public-health/topics/content/Diabetes%20Type%202/ipts.html

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