24,000 diabetes deaths a year ‘could be avoided’

Written by on December 14, 2011 - 3 Comments
Categories: Gov. Policy, Obesity, Research

This news story broke on 14 December 2011. There are 2.3 million diabetics in the UK. The vast majority (c. 90-95%) are type 2 diabetics – all will be explained below. The remainder are type 1 diabetics. A recent (the first ever) audit on patient deaths from diabetes notes that approximately 70-75,000 diabetic patients die [...]

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