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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A SOUTH Devon grandfather is believed to be among those who have had diabetes the longest in the UK ? after living with the condition for 77 years.
John Hegan, from Brixham, was diagnosed with type one diabetes when he was three-years-old in 1935.
The 80-year-old has taken injections of insulin every day since.
The use of insulin as a treatment was only discovered 90 years ago in Canada. Sheila Thorn, who died earlier this year, had diabetes for 80 years and was believed to be among those who had had insulin-dependent diabetes for the longest in the UK.
Mr Hegan (pictured right) was living in Coventry and was cared for at the Birmingham Children's Hospital when he was first diagnosed.
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/J...UK-s-longest/story-16237064-detail/story.html
John Hegan, from Brixham, was diagnosed with type one diabetes when he was three-years-old in 1935.
The 80-year-old has taken injections of insulin every day since.
The use of insulin as a treatment was only discovered 90 years ago in Canada. Sheila Thorn, who died earlier this year, had diabetes for 80 years and was believed to be among those who had had insulin-dependent diabetes for the longest in the UK.
Mr Hegan (pictured right) was living in Coventry and was cared for at the Birmingham Children's Hospital when he was first diagnosed.
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/J...UK-s-longest/story-16237064-detail/story.html