Here is what doctors who treat diabetes say are the everyday habits that lead to diabetes. This might come from someone who has diabetes who can share their experience of something, but equally it could come from a doctor or pharmacist who might tell us about an information source that we hadn’t known about. What problems might arise. Apart from the potential problems with getting this information onto the searchable web, there are lots of great reasons to do it – and why I’m so keen. Examples of long-term diabetes complications include blindness, kidney failure, stroke, and sexual problems. Analysis of the latest available 10-year data revealed a 19% decline in the prevalence of reported visual impairment in those with diagnosed diabetes, a 26% decline in the annual incidence of new end-stage renal failure, and a 65% decline in the incidence of nontraumatic lower extremity amputations. Working for Diabetes UK I do tend to notice any bad stories about diabetes, and health stories – it’s my job to find out about what’s going on and what people will contact us about. This technology could eventually make its way to the Apple Watch given the partnership between Apple and Rockley, and rumors suggest we will see blood pressure monitoring capabilities introduced at some point.
Absolutely fantastic to see Lila Moss on the runway with her omnipod stickers on display! Or, if NICE guidance was published in 2006 you can take an intelligent guess as to where you might go to see if it’s been updated. As always I wondered how this might fit in with ventures already in place to address misinformation – I don’t know of any that are actively retaliating by trying to get a ‘more correct’ version into the press, or if that would work. How will we manage any follow-up enquiries that might arise from these questions and answers having been made public – assuming anyone reads them of course, but if they do, they may well have a related query of their own. I’ve made a start here – writing what I hope are some reasonable suggestions on my blog, on the assumption that if you write anything wrong on the internet knowledgeable people will turn up and help you fix it.
Start with half of the dessert you normally eat, and replace the other half with fruit. “My stuff keeps on getting taken when I’m not around and, besides, I’m waiting until I got a place to live to start taking my medication again,” Hunter said, tearing up. So it is vital that you start a healthy lifestyle immediately. This was a large searchable database of enquiries which were speedily answered using the best available evidence – a good quality rapid response, but not a systematic complete answer (because the aim was to respond in a day or two). Keep a track of your blood glucose levels, while you’re awake throughout the day and night. People with type 2 diabetes have cells in the body that are resistant to insulin or have a pancreas that slows or stops producing adequate insulin levels (blood glucose). Most of these individuals are young adults there are suffering from Type 1 diabetes or fallen prey to Type 2 diabetes; more often than not due to the inclination towards fast food, and lack of proper exercise regimen. The reason for this increment in numbers among the young of today, is their diet. While diet and exercise remain the mainstay in the management of diabetes, it can sometimes affect athletes as well.
I’ve assumed that medical writing typically means agency work writing copy for pharmaceutical organisations or medical journalism, as opposed to what I actually do (explaining the science and statistics behind diabetes, including medical information and occasionally writing or proof-reading articles, which I’ve not done for a while to be honest). I’m a huge fan of BtH and use it frequently at work – even went to the celebratory party a few weeks ago. If you work in the area of health communication you’ve probably already come across this database, which in addition to questions and answers links to a number (OK, loads) of documents which have been evaluated for their evidence quality. We don’t currently have the resources to have a full-scale direct public enquiry service in our team, but queries that come in to any of our colleagues that require scientific / medical explanation or a search for evidence can be passed on to us to have a look at. For example, if a reference is cited in a document written in 2007 the first thing you can do is have a look at more recently written literature which has cited that reference. My first reaction was – is this really that new?
