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- Relationship to Diabetes
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A huge increase in rates of diabetes is causing an urgent public health crisis, warns a hard-hitting report.
The council’s adults and health overviews and scrutiny committee said more needs to be done to tackle an epidemic of the blood sugar disorder.
A draft report by the committee praises measures to treat and prevent diabetes, which can lead to a string of health complications and the need for limb amputations.
But it warns of a rising financial and social cost of treating diabetes in Wakefield, which has higher than average incidences of the condition.
In the report, The Cost of Diabetes, committee chairwoman Coun Betty Rhodes said: “In the Wakefield district there are 18,304 people over the age of 17 years diagnosed with diabetes.
http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/n...wakefield-s-growing-diabetes-crisis-1-6763947
The council’s adults and health overviews and scrutiny committee said more needs to be done to tackle an epidemic of the blood sugar disorder.
A draft report by the committee praises measures to treat and prevent diabetes, which can lead to a string of health complications and the need for limb amputations.
But it warns of a rising financial and social cost of treating diabetes in Wakefield, which has higher than average incidences of the condition.
In the report, The Cost of Diabetes, committee chairwoman Coun Betty Rhodes said: “In the Wakefield district there are 18,304 people over the age of 17 years diagnosed with diabetes.
http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/n...wakefield-s-growing-diabetes-crisis-1-6763947