What explains this-Huge rise in UK diabetes cases threatens to bankrupt NHS

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/17/diabetes-bring-down-nhs-charity
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Diabetes is threatening to bankrupt the NHS after a 60% rise in cases in the past 10 years, Diabetes UK has warned.

Cases in England and Wales have risen by 59.8% since 2005 with an additional 1.2 million adults living with the condition compared with 10 years ago.

The figures, extracted from NHS data and analysed by the charity, show that 3,333,069 people have been diagnosed with the disease.
Record number of people undergoing amputations because of diabetes
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Diabetes UK warned that there is an urgent need for effective care for sufferers, while more must be done to highlight the importance of prevention.

Six out of 10 people in England and Wales receive the eight care processes recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), and added that poorly managed diabetes can lead to devastating and expensive health complications including amputations and strokes.

[yeoman6987]

1. Just trying to bash national health care

If taxes are paying medical in Britain, it can't go bankrupt. You just raise taxes. BS story to convince Americans not to want national health care.

[AngryAmish]

2. People arw getting older and fatter

Being old and fat means you get diabetes.

Also, many of the "asian"popylation, as they call them, have endemic problems with heart disease and diabetes.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Overeating sweet food, and lack of exercise (nt)

[malaise]

7. It's the increase in ten years that I find frightening

Cases in England and Wales have risen by 59.8% since 2005 with an additional 1.2 million adults living with the condition compared with 10 years ago.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. That's pretty similar to the increase in obesity a few years earlier

https://www.noo.org.uk/NOO_about_obesity/adult_obesity/UK_prevalence_and_trends

If diabetes takes some years to develop, it's not surprising.

[bemildred]

4. Frankenfood kills. nt

[kelliekat44]

5. A couple of things could be going on. One is the efficacy of the treatment drugs.

Bad diet. Better detection.

A large number of amputees usually mean poor interventions and treatment. People are commonly prescribed a dosage regime without getting any explanation about the relationship between actual caloric intake, exercise, and dosage. My spouse is a 45-year diabetic and well controlled because he worked in an environment of physicians who understood this relationship (they were not practicing physicians but researchers). He learned to test himself before each meal to determine his dose of insulin. With this practice early on he can almost tell his exact reading without testing. He adjusts his dose according to his activity and meal content. Taking a single prescribed dose of insulin or other diabetic med regardless to activity or meal content results in too little or too much of the drug causing all kinds of related health issues that may go untreated. Sliding scale insulin treatment has proved to be the best for him. While we have friends and relatives who either loss their vision or loss a limb and died at younger ages, he has done quite well.

And one thing is for certain, trying to explain this to friends and relatives and asking them to ask their physicians about sliding scale treatment proved to be a nightmare. Few of them would question their physicians and those that did were scolded by their physician for even suggesting that their treatment be changed.

Two friends took the advice and discussed the issue with their physicians who undoubtedly worked with them. They are alive and well and living without complications other than growing old.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. This is also from the Guardian, 3 years ago.

Why our food is making us fat
We are, on average, 3st heavier than we were in the 60s. And not because we're eating more or exercising less – we just unwittingly became sugar addicts
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jun/11/why-our-food-is-making-us-fat

[Brickbat]

9. Baby boomers getting old.