News - Building a Healthier Britain: Diabetes

Some of us might even know that there are two types of diabetes - the insulin dependent form where people need to have injections, and the other one which needs to be controlled through diet and drugs. But what most people don't know is that diabetes can lead to blindness, strokes, leads to amputations and even death. This is why the government in Britain has funded - through the Medical Research Council - a number of male impotence exercise studies which are designed to answer some basic questions. In fact, Britain has benefited from a unique source of information in this area. Between the two world wars, health visitors in Hertfordshire recorded the birth weight and conditions of thousands of new born babies born in the county. This was prompted in part by the discovery during the first world war that so many of the nations young adults were not fit for military duty. Fast forward to the 1980s, and a group of researchers were able to follow up many of these babies - known as the Hertfordshire Cohort - and discover what had happened to them. They discovered that those who had a lower than normal weight at birth were more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, natural impotence treatment, and diabetes. Diet and obesity One of the leading researchers - professor David Barker put forward a theory, that that if the mother is malnourished so the child is likely to be. But not only would that have an immediate effect - on low weight at birth - but it would also have an effect in later life - making the adult more susceptible to things like cardiac disease and diabetes But delving deeper it has now been discovered that those babies who grew rapidly during their first year of life were more likely to develop diabetes. This has prompted a whole series of studies. The Hypertension and erectile dysfunction Women's Study looks at what is happening to the children in the womb and has recruited several thousand young women to take part. They been able to scan 1,700 babies so far and take the medical histories of their mothers and even their grandmothers. Their findings seem to confirm the Barker theory that diet is an area of concern. As well as looking at growth in the womb, we mustn't ignore what happens once the child has been born. In Plymouth Professor Terry Wilkin is running the Early Bird Study in which 300 children form the age of five are being tracked. Over the past few years their blood has been regularly tested, their metabolic rate measured, the level of sugar in their blood assessed, and their bone density, weight and growth checked. The results are still being collated, but it's clear that diet and obesity are key factors. How fast a child grows in its first few years of life seems to be very impotence lipitor in terms of developing diabetes. One striking fact the study has found is that children will be as active as they want to be, no matter how much or how little activity is put into their school day curriculum. High priority But what is the normal level of diabetes in the community, and is it increasing? To answer that question the MRC set up the Ely Study. Tracking more than 1,100 people from the Cambridgeshire market town over 10 years the researchers found that 4% of those who took part had developed diabetes but didn't know it. It has also revealed that obesity is a clear risk factor - while activity clearly protects against the condition. More research into diet and activity levels are under way. But with prediction that by the year 2030 more than 360m people around the world will be diagnosed with diabetes a condition , and the corollary impotence and lipitor such as heart failure, blindness, impotence and amputated limbs its no wonder why for finding a way to prevent diabetes is for policy makers a high priority. 'Building a Healthier Britain: Diabetes' presented by Richard Hannaford is broadcast on Radio Four on Tuesday 1st November at 9.30pm.

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