A Diabetic in Scotland is Diagnosed Every Thirty Five Minutes

Mon, 23 Jan 2012
An individual in Scotland is diagnosed with diabetes every 35 minutes.

Nearly five per cent of the population is now diabetic, with the number of diabetics increasing by four per cent each year.

Diabetics do not produce insulin and may need to inject themselves several times on a daily basis.

Today marks the 90th anniversary of insulin which was developed for use in these jabs, a drug which several Scottish scientists were party to developing.

Each diabetic or family and friends of anyone who has diabetes owes a debt to those scientists who made such a radical breakthrough.

Prior to the discovery of insulin, a type 1 diabetes diagnosis was a death sentence; the diabetic usually had just a few weeks.

There are approximately 287,000 people in Scotland who are diabetic, with about 95,000 of them being kept alive by insulin.

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