Type 2 Diabetes - Know your risk Posted on 17 Nov 2020

If you think you are at risk of Type 2 Diabetes or would like more information, you can complete the Diabetes UK ‘Know Your Risk’ tool (https://riskscore.diabetes.org.uk/start) to register yourself on to the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme.

The programme provides personalised support to help people achieve a healthy weight, improve their diet and become more physically active, all together which have been shown to reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.  During the Covid-19 pandemic, the programme is being delivered remotely via group video conference, or online through apps and websites.

Some key facts:-

·        Black and South Asian people have a higher risk of getting Type 2 diabetes after the age of 25, compared with those from a White background where risk increases after the age of 40.

·       Three in five cases of Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed.

·       The health complications of getting Type 2 diabetes can be serious and life changing – this could be loss of sight, loss of limbs, increased risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.

·         A third of people who died of COVID-19 in England had diabetes.

·         Your ethnicity alone could put you at risk of type 2 diabetes.

·       Over half a million people have been referred into the programme, and those completing the programme who were overweight or obese lost on average 3.6kg, greater than originally predicted.

·       Access to trusted information and support is key to helping people manage their diabetes The NHS’s highly successful, world-leading diabetes prevention programme is helping hundreds of thousands of people take small steps to get control of their own health

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