Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
IT IS something that you could call good timing.
As over 100 JDRF supporters – all directly affected by Type 1 diabetes and some as young as three years old – filed their way through the streets of Westminster to rally support, shocking figures of the toll the condition takes on the UK were unleashed.
About 400,000 people diagnosed, including 30,000 children. A direct cost of ?1 billion in treatment to the NHS. A ?900 million indirect cost to the UK.
The figures, published in a report titled Impact Diabetes, were certainly harrowing.
But that is the impression JDRF wants to make – that Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition and the cost of it could almost triple over the next twenty years, unless a cure is found.
In Tamworth, it is estimated that around 500 people live with Type 1 diabetes, an auto-immune condition that sees the body fight off insulin-producing cells in the liver.
http://www.thisistamworth.co.uk/Families-fight-cure-corridors-power/story-16010258-detail/story.html
So what's the pancreas for then? Chopped liver? 🙄
As over 100 JDRF supporters – all directly affected by Type 1 diabetes and some as young as three years old – filed their way through the streets of Westminster to rally support, shocking figures of the toll the condition takes on the UK were unleashed.
About 400,000 people diagnosed, including 30,000 children. A direct cost of ?1 billion in treatment to the NHS. A ?900 million indirect cost to the UK.
The figures, published in a report titled Impact Diabetes, were certainly harrowing.
But that is the impression JDRF wants to make – that Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition and the cost of it could almost triple over the next twenty years, unless a cure is found.
In Tamworth, it is estimated that around 500 people live with Type 1 diabetes, an auto-immune condition that sees the body fight off insulin-producing cells in the liver.
http://www.thisistamworth.co.uk/Families-fight-cure-corridors-power/story-16010258-detail/story.html
So what's the pancreas for then? Chopped liver? 🙄