Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Shetland is experiencing rapid and unexplained growth in type 1 diabetes, with the highest incidence of diagnosis per head of population in Europe.
According to figures released by a leading charity this week, the level of type 1 in Shetland stands at 0.27 per 1,000 people ? significantly higher than the Scottish average of 0.18 per 1,000 people.
Altogether there were 958 people in the Shetland population on the diabetes register for the isles last year.
JDRF, formerly the Juvenille Diabetes Research Foundation, an organisation dedicated to finding a cure for type 1, said around 27,000 people in Scotland live with type 1 every day. Diagnosis of under fives in Scotland is the highest in the world.
http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2012...e-1-diabetes-in-shetland-now-highest-in-world
According to figures released by a leading charity this week, the level of type 1 in Shetland stands at 0.27 per 1,000 people ? significantly higher than the Scottish average of 0.18 per 1,000 people.
Altogether there were 958 people in the Shetland population on the diabetes register for the isles last year.
JDRF, formerly the Juvenille Diabetes Research Foundation, an organisation dedicated to finding a cure for type 1, said around 27,000 people in Scotland live with type 1 every day. Diagnosis of under fives in Scotland is the highest in the world.
http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2012...e-1-diabetes-in-shetland-now-highest-in-world