Health professionals at the University of Chester are backing this year’s national Diabetes Week, Diabetes UK’s annual awareness and fundraising week (June 12-18).
The World Diabetes Day 2011 campaign marks the third year of the International Diabetes Federation's five-year focus on "Diabetes Education and Prevention," the theme chosen for 2009-2013.
In the UK nearly a million people have diabetes that have not yet been diagnosed and Diabetes UK state that their research suggests that a million of those are keeping their diabetes a secret.
Every 10 seconds in the world, one person dies of a diabetes related cause and two people are diagnosed with diabetes.
Dr Basma Ellahi, Head of Clinical Sciences, at the University of Chester, said: “It appears that although diabetes is serious, people are struggling to talk about it and this affects the management of it. This is perhaps the biggest problem, as many problems and complications linked to diabetes, including heart disease, stroke, blindness and amputations can be prevented.”
At the University of Chester, within the Department of Clinical Sciences, a Masters programme in Diabetes Management has been developed to help healthcare professionals do exactly this. The University has a range of clinicians and experts who have years of experience in helping individuals to come to terms with their diabetes and manage their condition effectively. This expertise has been harnessed in the writing of the new nutritional guidelines for the management of Diabetes, to deliver public lectures for the Nutrition Society as well as undertaking ground breaking research investigating the health effects of chocolate in the diet of people with diabetes.
For more information about the MSc in Diabetes Management please visit http://www.chester.ac.uk/postgraduate/diabetes-management. For more information about the research and expertise of the team in the area of diabetes management please email clinicalsciences@chester.ac.uk.
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