The prevalence of identified diabetes appears to have increased substantially over a relatively short period of eight years to 2004. The increase in prevalence was 46%, with an increase in numbers of patients with diabetes of 53%. A number of factors are likely to have contributed to this, including an increase in case ascertainment (Diabetic Medicine)
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Diabetes UK Position Statements
Diabetes continues to place a significant burden on the individual with diabetes and wider UK society. This report will be updated annually to understand how diabetes is changing across the UK (Diabetic Medicine)
Early Outcomes From the English National Health Service Diabetes Prevention Program
Reductions in weight and HbA1c compare favorably with those reported in recent meta-analyses of pragmatic studies and suggest likely future reductions in participant type 2 diabetes incidence (Diabetes Care)
Continuing rise of Type 2 diabetes incidence in children and young people in the UK
Type 2 diabetes remains far less common than Type 1 diabetes in childhood in the UK, but the number of cases continues to rise, with significantly increased incidence among girls and South-Asian children over a decade. Female gender, family history, non-white ethnicity and obesity were found to be strongly associated with the condition (Diabetic Medicine)
Diabetes-related amputations create considerable public health burden in the UK
There is a considerable public health and economic burden caused by diabetes-related amputations in England. More focussed research is needed with improved methods of estimating costs that would account for direct and indirect costs associated with diabetic amputation (Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice)
Diabetes-related major lower limb amputation incidence is strongly related to diabetic foot service provision and improves with enhancement of services: peer review of the South-West of England
Major diabetes-related lower limb amputation incidence is significantly inversely correlated with foot care services provision. Introduction of more effective service provision resulted in significant reductions in major amputation incidence within 2 years. Failure to improve unsatisfactory service provision resulted in continued high amputation incidence (Diabetic Medicine)
Cost of Glycemic Target Achievement with Sodium Glucose Co-transporter 2 Inhibitors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in the UK
This analysis suggests that, in the UK, canagliflozin 300 mg provides the best value for money among all SGLT2 inhibitors in terms of achieving HbA1c <7.0% when used as part of triple therapy with metformin plus sulfonylurea (Diabetes Therapy)
Costs and Treatment Pathways for Type 2 Diabetes in the UK: A Mastermind Cohort Study
Medication therapy has undergone substantial changes during the period covered in this study. For example, therapy is initiated earlier and is less expensive than in the past. The data provided in this study will prove useful for future modelling studies, e.g. of stratified treatment approaches (Diabetes Therapy)
Cost-effectiveness of population-based, community, workplace and individual policies for diabetes prevention in the UK
The model enables a wide range of diabetes prevention interventions to be evaluated according to cost-effectiveness, employment and equity impacts over the short and long term, allowing decision-makers to prioritize policies that maximize the expected benefits, as well as fulfilling other policy targets, such as addressing social inequalities (Diabetic Medicine)
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