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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The suspected onset of diabetes may have been responsible for the frostbite that has forced the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes to pull out of a gruelling expedition to cross Antarctica during the region's winter.
Speaking to BBC News in Cape Town in his first interview since leaving Antarctica last week, Sir Ranulph said that, while he considered the frostbite "a total mystery," an earlier annual medical check-up back in the UK had indicated that he "was on the verge... of type-two diabetes".
A South African vascular surgeon, examining his damaged left hand this week, had, he said, "suggested that if that's a recent change in my bodily system it? could have gone for any area in my body that was susceptible to circulation changes".
Further tests will be required back in the UK to confirm the theory.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21647934
That should scupper the 'only happens to the fat and lazy' theorists, given that Sir Ran is probably one of the fittest men ever to have strode the planet! I would have thought though, that he would have needed to be undiagnosed for quite some time, but there again I got chilblains in my first few months after diagnosis, in Southampton in the summer, so who knows?
Speaking to BBC News in Cape Town in his first interview since leaving Antarctica last week, Sir Ranulph said that, while he considered the frostbite "a total mystery," an earlier annual medical check-up back in the UK had indicated that he "was on the verge... of type-two diabetes".
A South African vascular surgeon, examining his damaged left hand this week, had, he said, "suggested that if that's a recent change in my bodily system it? could have gone for any area in my body that was susceptible to circulation changes".
Further tests will be required back in the UK to confirm the theory.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21647934
That should scupper the 'only happens to the fat and lazy' theorists, given that Sir Ran is probably one of the fittest men ever to have strode the planet! I would have thought though, that he would have needed to be undiagnosed for quite some time, but there again I got chilblains in my first few months after diagnosis, in Southampton in the summer, so who knows?
