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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Caring for diabetes patients in the community is the best model but it is not happening due to lack of money.
Everyone knows someone with diabetes type II. It’s a chronic disease that affects up to 5 per cent of the population so there’s a high probability that your mother, father, brother, sister, your friend or you have the condition.
The rising in people with diabetes type II has been known for a long time. So has the risk of patients with diabetes type II developing serious, sometimes life-threatening complications if not adequately screened or monitored. These include diabetes retinopathy (retina damage which can cause blindness), peripheral neuropathy (nerve damage which can cause foot ulcers and, in severe cases, require amputation), renal and cardiovascular problems.
“We have to stop thinking about diabetes as a blood glucose problem. It’s a vascular disease because it impacts the kidneys and eyes through the micro blood vessels and on the heart through the macro blood vessels,” says Dr Velma Harkins, a midlands GP.
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-...iabetes-we-need-funds-to-deliver-it-1.1956499
Everyone knows someone with diabetes type II. It’s a chronic disease that affects up to 5 per cent of the population so there’s a high probability that your mother, father, brother, sister, your friend or you have the condition.
The rising in people with diabetes type II has been known for a long time. So has the risk of patients with diabetes type II developing serious, sometimes life-threatening complications if not adequately screened or monitored. These include diabetes retinopathy (retina damage which can cause blindness), peripheral neuropathy (nerve damage which can cause foot ulcers and, in severe cases, require amputation), renal and cardiovascular problems.
“We have to stop thinking about diabetes as a blood glucose problem. It’s a vascular disease because it impacts the kidneys and eyes through the micro blood vessels and on the heart through the macro blood vessels,” says Dr Velma Harkins, a midlands GP.
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-...iabetes-we-need-funds-to-deliver-it-1.1956499