
Practical Diabetes
@pracdiabetes
Journal for healthcare professionals covering all aspects of #diabetes care, new drugs, #insulins, research, #obesity, guidelines and diabetes complications.
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Researchers have found that waist circumference-to-height-ratio is a better indicator of obesity than BMI in children. It's accessible, cheap, and better discriminates lean mass from fat 👏 nature.com/articles/s4139… University of Exeter Diabetes Care For Children & Young People journal BBC Health News







Scottish Type 1 Education Programme (STEP) equips people with newly diagnosed T1DM with skills to self-manage the condition. After STEP was introduced 60% of people met HbA1c level target range 12 months after their diagnosis, comparing to 48% in Scotland as a whole. Diabetes UK




'children are growing up in a food environment which undermines their health at every turn, but cross-government action could change this' Diabetes UK 'Reversing the trend' Wes Streeting Victoria Atkins diabetes.org.uk/about-us/news-…