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Diabetes Awareness Week 8th - 14th June 2020

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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:
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/diabetes/

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:
  • Textbook of diabetes / Richard I.G Holt (editor.), 2017; 5th edition. [Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell] - Previous edition is available in print and online for Keele and NHS.
  • 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 for Keele and NHS.

JOURNALS:
  • Diabetes Care / Alexandria, VA, etc. : American Diabetes Association. [Available in print 1994 - 2017 and as a Keele ejournal 1996 onwards with 6 month embargo.]
  • Diabetes / Alexandria: American Diabetes Association. [Available in print 1994 - 2012 and as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1997 onwards with 6 month embargo.]
  • BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care / London : BJM]. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2014 onwards & NHS ejournal 2013 onwards.]
  • Primary Care Diabetes /Kidlington, Oxford : Elsevier. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2007 onwards]
  • Nutrition and Diabetes / Houndmills, Baingstoke : Nature Pub. Group. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2011 onwards]
  • Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology / Foster City, CA : Diabetes Technology Society. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2007 onwards & as a NHS ejournal 2007 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • Journal of diabetes research, Nasr City, Cairo : Hindawi Publishing Corporation. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2013 onwards]

Access these and more journals via our Journals webpage https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
  • Montenegro, Roberto E ; Dori-Hacohen, Gonen, “Morality in sugar talk: Presenting blood glucose levels in routine diabetes medical visits”, Social Science & Medicine, May 2020, Vol.253 1129252. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • 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 Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • 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 Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Orme, Aj ; Suchak, P ; Dixon, Ra ; Lloyd, A ; Saeed, MA, “Do educational interventions improve the awareness of drivers living with diabetes?”, Diabetic Medicine, 2013 Mar, Vol.30 Suppl 1, pp.113-113. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Anne, V ; Mieke, R ; Monique, H ; Giel, N ; Guy, R ; Francois, S, “Living with diabetes: A family-based group intervention to strengthen beneficial illness perceptions in DM2-patients and partners”, Psychology & Health, 2011, Vol.26 Suppl 2, pp.278-278. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • 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].
  • 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 Keele & NHS ejournals].

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