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Diabetes Awareness Week 11th - 17th June 2018


Diabetes is predicted to become a huge crisis for the future health of the U.K.’s population. It is a health condition that can have a major impact on one’s life and once at an advanced stage, diabetes can cause a host of other health complications. Knowledge of the causes of diabetes is a prerequisite to reducing the risk of becoming a diabetic.
Diabetes afflicts more people in the U.K. than any other serious health condition. There are 4.6 million Type 1 sufferers and an estimated 12.3 million people are potential type 2 diabetics.
2018’s campaign is seeing Diabetes UK try and create further  awareness of the condition and encouraging people to share their experiences of living with diabetes.
For more information surrounding diabetes please visit the NHS Choices and Diabetes UK websites:
RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES
For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who 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
  • Handbook of diabetes /  Rudy W. Bilous and Richard Donnelly, 2010 4th edition [Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell]. Ebook also available.
  • ABC of diabetes /  Tim Holt and Sudhesh Kumar, 2010 6th edition, [Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell]
  • Textbook of diabetes / ed. By Richard I.G. Holt editor, 2017, 5th edition [Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell]

JOURNALS
  • Journal of diabetes science and technology, Foster City, CA : Diabetes Technology Society. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2007 onwards & as an NHS ejournal 2007 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • Journal of diabetes, Richmond, Vic. : Blackwell Publishing Asia Ltd. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2009 onwards]
  • Primary care diabetes, Kidlington, Oxford : Elsevier. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2007 onwards]
  • Journal of diabetes and its complications, New York, NY : Elsevier Science Pub. Co.. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards & as an NHS ejournal 2003 onwards].
  • Journal of diabetes research, Nasr City, Cairo : Hindawi Publishing Corporation. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2013 onwards]
  • Pediatric diabetes, Oxford : Blackwell. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2000 onwards]
  • Clinical diabetes, New York : American Diabetes Association. [Available in print 1994 – 2016, as a Keele ejournal 2001 onwards with 6 month embargo & as a NHS ejournal 2001 onwards]
  • The Lancet : Diabetes and Endocrinology, New York : Elsevier. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2013 onward].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Fisher, Lawrence ; Hessler, Danielle  and Polonsky, William et al, “Emotion regulation contributes to the development of diabetes distress among adults with type 1 diabetes”, Patient Education and Counseling, 2018, Vol.101(1), pp.124-131. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Taylor, Robyn, “Diabetes”, Nursing standard, 2014, Vol.29(3), pp.61. [Available in print and via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Keene, Danya E. ; Guo, Monica and  Murillo, Sascha, "That wasn't really a place to worry about diabetes: Housing access and diabetes self-management among low-income adults”, Social Science & Medicine,  2018, Vol.197, pp.71-77. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Duignan, A ; Kenny, R. A and Savva, G. M et al, “Diabetes”, Age and Ageing, 2013, Vol. 42(suppl2), pp.ii17-ii17. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Franks, PW and Mccarthy, MI; “Exposing the exposures responsible for type 2 diabetes and obesity”, Science, 2016 Oct 7, Vol.354(6308), pp.69-73. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Welch, Thomas R., “Diabetes and arthritis”, The Journal of Pediatrics, 2015, Vol.166(4), pp.783-787. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Hendrieckx, C., Hagger, V. and Jenkins, A. et.al, “Severe hypoglycemia, impaired awareness of hypoglycemia, and self-monitoring in adults with type 1 diabetes: Results from Diabetes MILES-Australia”, Journal of diabetes and its complications, 2017, Vo.31(3), pp. 577-582. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

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