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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Scotland is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. The consequence of this is type-2 diabetes, a weight-related and life-threatening condition.
Almost a quarter of a million people in Scotland have it.
Dr Gerald Spence has worked as a GP at Shettleston medical practice in Glasgow for more than 30 years.
He says: "We've had an almost 50% increase in diabetics in the past five or six years in the practice.
"We've gone from about 250 to about 350 in the practice.
"Now we are seeing it in younger and younger people. People in their 20s are coming in with symptoms and you think 'oh goodness me, that sounds like diabetes'."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23020573
Almost a quarter of a million people in Scotland have it.
Dr Gerald Spence has worked as a GP at Shettleston medical practice in Glasgow for more than 30 years.
He says: "We've had an almost 50% increase in diabetics in the past five or six years in the practice.
"We've gone from about 250 to about 350 in the practice.
"Now we are seeing it in younger and younger people. People in their 20s are coming in with symptoms and you think 'oh goodness me, that sounds like diabetes'."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23020573