Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:50:21 AM GMT
Monday, November 09, 2009 8:41:26 AM GMT
The charity Diabetes UK has warned that seven million people in the UK have "pre-diabetes" (Impaired Glucose Regulation - IGR), which can make them 15 times more likely to develop diabetes than the rest of the population.
The total number of people with diabetes in the UK currently stands at 2.6 million.
Pre-diabetes doesn't appear out of the blue. Diabetes UK explain that:
Many people with prediabetes are overweight or obese at diagnosis and 90 per cent will either have a family history of pr...
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