Living with Diabetes more easily

Sweet technology takes a look at how people with diabetes can benefit from using technology to manage their condition.

 

Diabetes Facts

Diabetes affects 5 per cent of the world’s population and its prevalence is doubling every generation.

The International Diabetes Federation estimates that in 2005 around 333 million1 people in the world aged 20–79 had diabetes.

More than two million people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes. This number is predicted to reach three million by 2010. 2, 3
It is estimated that around another 750,000 people in the UK have diabetes but do not know they have it.

The clinical supervision and care of people with diabetes currently consumes 5 per cent of the NHS budget (about £10 million a day) and 10 per cent of hospital in-patient resources. The NHS spend on diabetes will rise to around 10 per cent of the NHS budget by 2011.

 

Find out more about diabetes from the following websites (ScienceSnaps is not responsible for content of external websites):

Engineering models of the metabolism

Scottish National Diabetes Framework

Diabetes UK