Diabetes
is a serious condition where your blood glucose level is too high. There are
two main types, Type 1 and Type 2. They’re different conditions, but they’re
both serious. There are 2 main types of diabetes:
Type 1 diabetes – where
the body's immune system attacks and destroys the cells that produce insulin
Type 2 diabetes – where
the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body's cells do not react to
insulin. Type 2 diabetes is far more common than type 1. In the UK, around 90%
of all adults with diabetes have type 2.
During
pregnancy, some women have such high levels of blood glucose that their body is
unable to produce enough insulin to absorb it all - this is known as gestational diabetes.
One in
15 of us live with diabetes. That’s 4.8 million people in the UK – more than
cancer and dementia combined. That includes one million people who don’t even
know they have diabetes; which means that the chances are, lots of people you
know are living with diabetes.
For more
information surrounding diabetes please visit the Diabetes UK and NHS Choices
websites:
RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES
For
anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of
and supporting those who have been affected or suffer from diabetes, the Health
Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources
related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well
as information on materials recently added to our collection and available
periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at
the counter.
BOOKS:
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ABC
of diabetes / Tim A. Holt, Sudhesh Kumar, 2015; 7th ed.
[Chichester : John Wiley and Sons, Inc.] - Previous
editions are available in print
and online
JOURNALS:
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Diabetes / Alexandria: American
Diabetes Association. [Available as an ejournal1997 onwards with 6 month
embargo.]
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BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care /
London : BJM]. [Available as an ejournal
2013 onwards.]
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Primary Care Diabetes
/Kidlington, Oxford : Elsevier. [Available as an ejournal 2007
onwards]
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Nutrition and Diabetes /
Houndmills, Baingstoke : Nature Pub. Group. [Available as a an ejournal 2011 onwards]
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Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology / Foster City, CA : Diabetes Technology Society.
[Available as an ejournal 2007
onwards with 1 year embargo].
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Journal
of diabetes research, Nasr City, Cairo : Hindawi Publishing
Corporation. [Available as an NHS ejournal 2013 onwards]
JOURNAL
ARTICLES:
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Emilio Fernandez-Egea, Ryan Walker, Hisham
Ziauddeen, Rudolf N Cardinal, Edward T Bullmore, “Birth weight, family history
of diabetes and diabetes onset in schizophrenia”, BMJ Open Diabetes Research
and Care, 2020; 8:e001036. doi:10.1136/bmjdrc-2019-001036 . [Available via NHS ejournals].
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Arwen M. Marker, Amy E. Noser, Nicole Knecht,
Mark A. Clements, Susana R. Patton, “A Time-Friendly, Feasible Measure of
Nutrition Knowledge in Type 1 Diabetes: The Electronic Nutrition and
Carbohydrate Counting Quiz (eNCQ).”, Journal
of Diabetes Science and Technology, Jun 2018, Vol.13(1):68-74. [Available
via NHS ejournals].
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Danne, T.; Limbert, C., “COVID-19, type 1
diabetes, and technology: why paediatric patients are leading the way”, The
Lancet : Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2020, Vol.(6), pp. 465-467.
[Available via NHS ejournals].
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Adailton da Silva, J. et al. “Diagnosis of
Diabetes Mellitus and Living With a Chronic Condition: Participatory Study”, BMC
Public Health, 2018, Vol.18(1): 699. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5637-9 . [Available
via NHS ejournals].
PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT
ADVICE
· Diabetes NICE Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter-
CURRENT AWARENESS
