Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
SCORES of South Tynesiders discovered if they were at risk of developing life-changing complications at a diabetes roadshow.
Members of Diabetes UK held a two-day Healthy Lifestyle Roadshow in King Street, South Shields, to reach the borough?s estimated 2,300 residents who don?t realise they have the disease.
Staff offered risk assessment tests to 186 shoppers, which predicts a person?s chances of developing Type 2 diabetes within the next 10 years.
Sixty per cent of those tested ? 112 people ? were referred to their GP for further advice as their risk was deemed moderate to high.
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/health/diabetes-testing-hits-the-road-1-4987698
Members of Diabetes UK held a two-day Healthy Lifestyle Roadshow in King Street, South Shields, to reach the borough?s estimated 2,300 residents who don?t realise they have the disease.
Staff offered risk assessment tests to 186 shoppers, which predicts a person?s chances of developing Type 2 diabetes within the next 10 years.
Sixty per cent of those tested ? 112 people ? were referred to their GP for further advice as their risk was deemed moderate to high.
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/health/diabetes-testing-hits-the-road-1-4987698