Endocrine Abstracts

Dr David Unwin MbChB FRCGP Our GP practice of 9500 people has suffered an eight-fold increase in the number of patients with T2D since 1986. In addition, those affected now develop this condition decades earlier than was the norm back in 1986. A situation replicated all over the developed world. Nationally there are 122,780 children and young adults under the age of 40 years with type 2 diabetes, 1,560 (around 1.3 per cent) are under the age of 19 years. In 2013 our practice d...