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A brief overview of some of the fundraising activities that have been
undertaken in 2017 to raise funds and awareness about diabetes and
for diabetes charities.
F
aye Riley, who is part
of the research team at
Diabetes UK looks back
at 2017 and says, "Great
progress is being made
with the Type 1 diabetes research we're
funding all across the UK. Towards the
end of this year we brought you some
news about a study that is the first to
use a new genetic technique to find
Type 1 diabetes in adults. Using key
Type 1 diabetes genes to calculate each
person's risk of having the condition,
scientists found that a diagnosis of Type
1 is almost equally common in those
over the age of 30 as in younger people.
This is really important information
that could help adults get the correct
diagnoses of diabetes, as it's too often
assumed that older people are more
likely to only have Type 2. Then we've
got a bunch of other projects you can
explore. Professor Noel Morgan, in
Exeter, is studying the immune attack
in Type 1 diabetes. Professor James
Shaw, in Newcastle, is working on
a new approach to improve islet cell
transplants to treat Type 1 diabetes.
Professor Helen Colhoun, in Edinburgh,
is looking for specific genes involved in
Type 1 diabetes and its complications,
to help develop new therapies. And
that's only scratching the surface."
Karen Addington, Chief Executive of
JDRF in the UK, has said: "Thank you to