The British Diabetic Association

She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1993, and after more than a decade working in education, she retrained as a midwife and has since become a passionate advocate for women with diabetes.

Dawn has worked alongside researchers from Ulster University, Diabetes UK and University College London, studying the experience of women living through menopause with diabetes.

She is also involved with hashtag DDoc, the International Diabetes Federation Blue Circle Voices Network, Menopause Together, and the Trend Diabetes Committee.

But what I especially appreciate about Dawn is her belief that research has to be grounded in lived experience.

She said, you know, it is a proof of concept paper, but it's so very interesting.

So to hear that from a well-recognized researcher in the UK who also works across Dublin, sorry, Republic of Ireland, and has worked with international teams, that kind of just spurred me on a wee bit more.

But as a result of the workshop discussion, I then became involved in a working group with Diabetes UK.

And that led into another research project into menopause and diabetes.

No. What's extraordinary, though, Murray, is that in all that time, the developments in that area for type 1 diabetes are not massive, are they? I mean, there's a lot of – I'm at the moment walking 11,000 steps a day.

to raise money for Diabetes UK because it's a very underfunded area of medical research, I

think.

And it really does, as you know, once somebody has it, it is a life.

Yes.

And that pronouncement by the American Diabetes Association, which was incidentally an association with the European Association and Diabetes UK, so it was a, a joint consensus.

It pointed out that after weight loss, and that's a critical thing, if it was possible to stop all tablets and bring the HbA1c in, into the normal, the non-diabetic range, then all the other abnormalities would've corrected.

And the major abnormality that has corrected is the liver fat with a knock on into the amount of fat produced in the blood.

So this does make quite a lot of sense, unfortunately, that this could happen.

So this article, Exploring Research, Can Coronavirus Cause Diabetes or Make It Worse? from the diabetic website Diabetes UK, their good website.

They report this study here.

47,000 people in England admitted hospital for coronavirus to before August 2020.

Hello and welcome to this edition of the Word on Health podcast with me, Paul Pennington.

Coming up, I'll be talking to the clinical lead of Diabetes UK, Douglas Trenifor, and I'll be joined by Mandy Malcolmson from the Strathcaran Hospice.

But first...

More than 340,000 people across the UK are living with bronchiectasis, making it one of the country's most common chronic lung conditions, yet many of us have never heard of it.

An estimated 1.3 million additional people live with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes and Approximately 6.9 million people are thought to be at high risk having pre-diabetes or increased blood sugar levels.

With cases continuing to rise, including among younger adults, recognising your risk and taking action early could help prevent serious complications.

Yet new research from Diabetes UK and Tesco suggests that most people have never checked their own risk and many don't know how.

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