Barely a day goes by without type 2 diabetes hitting the headlines. Last week alone there were two major stories about the condition.
A study from French researchers showed that if you develop type 2 in middle age, it doubles your risk of getting dementia by the age of 70.
Another study, which looked at data from 200,000 Britons, found that it takes more than two years on average for patients to be diagnosed with type 2.
We read a lot about the growing type 2 diabetes ‘epidemic’ and its devastating effect on health it’s something I’ve witnessed with growing alarm over my 44-year medical career as a diabetes specialist and research scientist.