Category Archives: Diabetes
Boris Johnson is worried about the effect of the reforms to DLA
Boris Johnson turns his fire on the Government’s reforms to Disability Living Allowance
Living with a disability is expensive – for the disabled and the taxpayer
One of the Coalition government’s less well-covered reforms is that of the disability living allowance (DLA). The DLA is not an out-of-work benefit and it is not means tested: it’s payable to everyone with a disability, to help with the many extra financial costs that disabled people have to live with. Unfortunately, it’s also very expensive: since the early 1990s, the number of people claiming the allowance has tripled, to nearly 2.2 million. The Government believes too many people are claiming the benefit, so it is introducing stricter new tests, designed to save £1.4 billion by 2015.
Men ‘more prone to type 2 diabetes’
“Diabetes UK is calling on both men and women to reduce their chances of developing type 2 diabetes by losing any excess weight
Researchers say they have discovered why men may be more likely than women to develop type 2 diabetes – they are biologically more susceptible.
Men need to gain far less weight than women to develop the condition, study findings suggest.
The Glasgow University team found men developed the disease at a lower Body Mass Index (BMI) than women.
They believe distribution of the body fat is important – men tend to store it in their liver and around the waist.
Diabetes Raises the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: Study
September 20, 2011 11:33 AM EDT
Diabetes does not just take its toll on the heart, a new study in Japan has found. It dramatically increases the risks of developing Alzheimer’s or dementia in later life.
Researchers from Kyushu University in Japan found that even when other risk factors of dementia such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking were taken into the account; the risks of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s from diabetes was still extremely high.
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