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Guide to diabetes

• Introduction to diabetes
• What is diabetes?
• What is Type 1 diabetes?
• What is Type 2 diabetes?
• Prediabetes
• Maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
• Type 2 diabetes in children
• Gestational diabetes
• Diabetes symptoms
• Causes and risk factors
• Treating diabetes
• Coming to terms with diagnosis
• Caring for someone with diabetes
• Diabetes - A guide for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
• 1 - Introduction
• 2 - What is diabetes?
• 3 - Eat well. Stay active
• 4 - Other health problems
• 5 - Hypos
• 6 - Travelling with diabetes
• 7 - Who to contact
• Myths and frequently asked questions
• Living with diabetes
• Coping with diabetes
• Letting people know
• Work and employment
• Disability Discrimination Act
• Applying for jobs
• When to tell recruiters
• Telling others
• Hypos at work
• Taking time off
• Sources of support
• Caring for children with diabetes
• Publications for carers of children
• Teach your tot about diabetes
• Pregnancy and diabetes
• Before you become pregnant
• During your pregnancy
• Your stories
• Discrimination
• Employment
• Goods, facilities and services
• Other measures in the Act
• Checklist
• Related contact details
• Driving
• Informing the DVLA
• Applying for a driving licence
• DVA in Northern Ireland
• Driving licences
• Insurance cover
• Hypoglycaemia
• If you have an accident
• Diabetic complications
• Licence groups
• Driving under 'blue light' conditions
• DVLA and DVA
• Alcohol
• Road safety
• Sources of support
• Insurance
• Travel insurance
• Motor insurance
• Insurance/assurance for loans and life
• Health insurance and hospital cash insurance
• Pension options
• Further information
• Financial entitlements
• Prescriptions
• Disability Living Allowance
• Sex and diabetes
• Women and sexual dysfunction
• Men and sexual dysfunction
• Getting further help
• Further information
• How it affects me
• Travel
• Your diet while away from home
• Things to check out before you go
• Packing for your trip
• Blood glucose conversions
• Before leaving home
• Air travel and insulin
• Dealing with illness while abroad
• Airline catering - advice for airline catering companies
• Medical ID
• Illness
• Be prepared
• When you are ill
• When you are better
• Checklist
• Children, illness and diabetes
• Organ and blood donation
• Type 1 videos
• The Bendy Bus
• Food and recipes
• Eating well with Type 1 diabetes
• About carbohydrate
• Ten steps to eating well
• Your questions answered
• A healthy balance
• Know your labels
• Eating well with Type 2 diabetes
• About carbohydrate
• Ten steps to eating well
• Your questions answered
• A healthy balance
• What's on your plate?
• Managing your weight
• Know your labels
• Recipes
• Adapting recipes
• General cooking tips
• Catering for people with diabetes
• Shopping
• The Glycaemic Index
• Carbohydrate counter
• Fasting and diabetes
• What is fasting?
• Who fasts?
• What happens to your body during fasting?
• Changes to your diet
• Other things to remember
• Summary
• Ramadan, fasting and diabetes
• Celebrations and eating out
• Keeping blood glucose levels in check
• Eating out
• Children's parties
• Vitamin and mineral supplements
• Sugar and sweeteners
• A healthy lifestyle
• Eating well
• Keeping active
• What makes it important to you?
• So what's stopping you?
• What counts as activity?
• Activities to get you started
• Top tips for being active
• Before you start
• Strenuous sports
• Physical activity and altitude
• Sports drinks
• Managing your weight
• How do I know if I need to lose weight?
• Getting motivated
• Who can help?
• Healthy eating and lifestyle
• Calorie controlled plan
• Commercial weight loss programmes
• Setting goals
• Medication and surgery
• Smoking
• Smoking and diabetes
• Support to quit
• Benefits of giving up
• Alcohol and diabetes
• What is a unit?
• Hypoglycaemia
• Your health
• Be aware
• Emotional well-being
• Living with diabetes
• What is depression?
• Coming to terms with depression
• Treatments
• Psychological support and counselling
• Support information for carers
• Further information
• Treatments
• Tablets
• Sulphonylureas
• Biguanide
• Prandial glucose regulator
• Alpha glucosidase inhibitor
• Thiazolidinediones (glitazones)
• DPP-4 inhibitors (gliptins)
• Insulin
• About injecting
• Worried about injecting?
• Storing insulin
• Alternatives to injecting insulin
• Disposal of sharps - needles and lancets
• Insulin pumps
• Incretin mimetics
• Blood Pressure
• Blood pressure medications
• Blood fats (cholesterol)
• Blood fat medications
• Complementary therapies
• Herbal supplements
• Karela
• Cinnamon
• Vitamin and mineral supplements
• Vaccinations
• Seasonal flu (influenza)
• Swine flu (influenza A (H1N1))
• Pneumonia (pneumoccocal)
• Travel vaccinations
• Monitoring your health
• Glucose levels
• Self-blood glucose testing
• Blood glucose targets
• Blood glucose meters
• Finger-pricking devices and lancets
• Disposal of sharps - needles and lancets
• Worried about finger-pricking?
• Urine testing
• HbA1c (Glycated haemoglobin) and fructosamine
• Blood pressure
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Blood fats (lipids)
• Feet
• How can diabetes affect your feet?
• How do I look afer my feet?
• What are the danger signs?
• What is an infection?
• How do I get help to look after my feet?
• What can I expect at a foot examination?
• Seeking help with your feet
• Caring for your feet on holiday
• Specialist footwear
• Eyes
• Complications
• Cardiovascular disease
• Retinopathy - eyes
• Nerves (Neuropathy)
• Sensory neuropathy
• Autonomic neuropathy
• Motor neuropathy
• And finally
• Kidneys (Nephropathy)
• Hypoglycaemia
• Causes
• Signs and symptoms
• Treatment
• Hypos at night
• Hypos and physical activity
• Hypos and driving
• Hypos and alcohol
• Important points to remember
• 'Hypo' dogs
• Non-diabetic hypoglycaemia
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State (HHS)
• Information in different languages
• Support for managing your diabetes
• Diabetes care and you
• Diabetes care UK
• What you should expect from the NHS
• Working with your healthcare team
• What care you should expect from your healthcare team
• Care review checklist
• Self-managing your diabetes
• Complaints
• Get involved
• Diabetes care in hospital
• Before your stay
• During your stay
• After your stay
• Complaints
• Structured Education
• Choosing a course
• Forthcoming courses
• Diabetes UK education events
• Living with diabetes days
• Family network days
• Other educational events
• Year of care
• What is the Year of Care?
• Care planning
• How does the year of care work?
• Hot topics
• Find out more
• InfoBank - your local care
• National Service Frameworks (NSF)
• Hot topics
• Other associated conditions
• Coeliac disease
• What is coeliac disease?
• What are the symptoms of coeliac disease?
• Is there a link between diabetes and coeliac disease?
• What should I do if I think I have coeliac disease?
• How is coeliac disease treated?
• Ten steps to eating well with diabetes and coeliac disease
• What are the long-term effects of coeliac disease?
• Further information
• Diabetes insipidus
• Polycystic ovary syndrome
• Skin (Necrobiosis)
• Breasts (Mastopathy)
• Musculoskeletal Conditions
• Limited joint mobility
• Dupuytren’s Contracture
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Tenosynovitis
• Frozen shoulder
• Charcot joint
• Your stories
• Timeline
• My life - for young people with diabetes
• Diabetes in care homes
• Specific care for elderly people
• Care planning
• Infection
• Incontinence
• Feet
• Kidneys
• Eyes
• Oral health
• End of life care
• Food and nutrition
• Eating well in care homes
• Helping independent older people
• Meal planning
• Additional considerations
• Recipes for weight management
• Individualised information
• Information and education
• Activity
• Start up
• Exercises for people who are mobile
• Exercises from a chair
• Exercises for someone confined to bed
• Hypoglycaemia in elderly people
• Signs and symptoms
• Chronic hypoglycaemia
• Treatment of hypoglycaemia
• Prevention of hypoglycaemia
• Mental health
• Depression
• Memory problems
• Hospital
• Avoiding admission
• Admission to hospital
• Preparation for discharge
• Annual review
• What if I can’t get to the clinic?

How we help

• Care events
• Children's support holidays
• Family support weekends
• Children's Support Weekends
• Volunteering
• Help with applying
• Applying for Children's holidays
• Applying for Family weekends
• Applying for Children's weekends
• Applying to be a volunteer
• Roadshow
• What are the risk assessments?
• Sut rydym ni’n asesu risg?
• Contact the Roadshow team
• Careline
• Advocacy
• Advocacy packs
• Financial services
• Travel insurance
• Diabetes UK Travel Essentials
• Julie's story
• US and Caribbean rates
• Holiday money
• Motor insurance
• Home insurance
• Pet insurance
• Credit card
• Retirement
• Life insurance
• Health cash plan
• Equity Release
• Will Writing and Lasting Power of Attorney
• Funeral planning
• Local support groups
• Find a local support group
• In your area
• Balance and other magazines
• Balance
• About Balance
• Past issues
• Diabetes Update
• Research matters
• On the Level
• Tadpole Times
• Diabetes Lifestyle
• Online shop
• Science information
• Membership
• Benefits of Supporting Membership
• Become a Life Benefactor
• For Healthcare Professionals
• Frequently asked questions
• How much does Supporting Membership cost?
• What happens if I live outside the UK?
• What is Gift Aid?
• What is a Supporting Membership number?
• Supporting Members' area
• What's inside
• Frequently asked questions

Get involved

• Donate
• Change a Life appeal 2009
• Coin box appeal 2010
• Coin box request form
• Direct debit donation
• More on Regular Giving
• Donate in memory
• Funeral collections
• Tribute funds
• Payroll giving
• What difference will payroll giving make?
• Weekly lottery
• Summer prize draw 2009
• Leave a legacy
• How your gift will help
• Making a will
• Changing a will
• Legal terms explained
• Your free will guide
• Your intentions
• Gift aid
• Fundraising
• Diabetes Challenge
• Your Diabetes Challenge stories
• Care for a Cuppa
• Challenges
• Abseils and zip slides
• Parachuting and skydiving
• White water rafting
• Other challenges
• Festive and cultural events
• Fright nights
• Overseas challenges
• Running events
• Running events - homepage
• Start here
• Fun runs
• 5K runs
• 10K runs
• Half marathons
• Marathons
• 'Great' events
• Overseas runs
• Triathlons
• Other runs
• All runs
• Your stories
• Training plans
• Social events
• Dance
• Denim for diabetes
• Formal balls
• Care for a Cuppa
• Other social
• Sports
• Cycling events
• Golf
• Race days
• Other sport
• Walks
• Walk the extra mile
• Other walks
• Run your own event
• Other ways to fundraise
• Children's book
• Adopt a project
• Buy a charity card from BusyBods
• Buy a charity CD
• Collect stamps
• Dangermouse pin badge appeal
• Everyclick.com
• Jewellery appeal
• Recycle your unwanted gadgets
• Shop on eBay
• Switching to another energy supplier
• Tips
• Getting started
• Organising Events
• Sponsorship tips
• Online fundraising
• Top ten fundraising tips
• Raising awareness
• Getting started
• Booking a speaker
• Volunteering
• Become a speaker
• Distribute materials
• Get Serious campaign
• Silent Assassin campaign
• Background information
• Reduce your risk of developing diabetes
• What happens when you are tested for diabetes?
• Information for healthcare professionals
• Measure Up campaign
• Retinopathy campaign
• Change4Life campaign
• Awareness events
• Diabetes UK awareness events
• Other awareness events
• World Diabetes Day
• 2009 activities
• Useful links
• Supporting each other
• Voluntary groups
• Start a new group
• Help for existing groups
• Children and family support events
• Campaigning
• Current campaigns
• General Election campaign
• Diabetes Campaigners Network
• Our work in Parliament
• General election campaign 2010
• Photo gallery of events
• All Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes
  (APPG Diabetes)
• Diabetes Parliamentary Champion
• Campaign success stories
• Make diabetes a priority
• Volunteering
• Get involved newsletter
• Training and events
• Volunteering Conferences 2010
• Volunteers' stories
• Volunteers Thank You
• Support Diabetes UK
• Office volunteers
• Internship scheme
• Board of Trustees
• UK Advisory Council
• Diabetes UK Involvement Network
• User involvement
• Latest updates
• Understanding diabetes policy
• Proposals for the NHS in England
• Your right to be involved
• Your feedback
• You can help
• Comment
• What is user involvement?
• Principles
• Methods
• Impact
• Case studies
• Our projects
• Working in partnership with NHS Diabetes
• How to get involved
• User involvement at Diabetes UK
• Service User Rep Network
• Current opportunities
• Support for organisations
• Working with you to involve people with diabetes
• Service User Rep Network
• Sign up today
• How Diabetes UK can support you
• Stories from service user reps
• How you can get involved in the NHS
• What the NHS should be doing to involve people
• Your feedback
• Corporate partners
• Why choose Diabetes UK?
• Where your money goes
• Benefits to you
• Ways to work with us
• Payroll giving for employers
• Sponsorship
• Charity of the Year
• Cause related marketing
• Staff fundraising
• Previous events
• Consultancy and logo association
• Other ways to work with us
• Acknowledgements
• Contact us
• Your chance to win
• Weekly lottery
• How do I enter?
• Who can enter?
• How will I know if I have won?
• What are the prizes?
• Lottery rules
• Winners
• Winners' stories
• Summer 2010 Prize Draw winners
• Christmas Eve prize draw 2009
• Competitions
• Diabetes Week
• What you did
• Diabetes myths
• Diabetes myth: Eating too much sugar causes diabetes
• Diabetes myth: Type 2 diabetes is mild diabetes
• Diabetes myth: If you have diabetes you can't drive
• Diabetes myth: People with diabetes can't play sport
• Healthy lifestyle
• Celebrity supporters
• Corporate supporters
• Keepy Uppy Competition
• Exhibition - A Portrait of Diabetes
• A Portrait of Diabetes gallery
• Get Serious
• Online communities
• Social media
• Related forums
• Blogs
• Type 2 diabetes blog
• Travels with Type 1 diabetes blog
• 'Get involved' blog
• APC behind-the-scenes blog
• Music streaming
• Photo sharing
• Video sharing
• Virtual worlds

Research

• About our research
• Research Strategy
• How the strategy was developed
• A flexible approach
• Investing in people
• How we fund research
• How we decide
• Gathering your views
• Current research
• Research project directory
• Research matters
• Research successes
• Research timeline
• Past fellows
• Black and minority ethnic groups
• Cardiovascular disease
• Care and treatment
• Cause and prevention
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Genetics
• Genetics (Type 2 diabetes)
• Gestational diabetes
• Immune system
• Insulin resistance
• Insulin signalling
• Obesity
• Psychosocial
• Treatment (Type 2 diabetes)
• Help fund research
• Position statements
• Get involved in research
• Diabetes Research Network
• Diabetes research trial opportunities
• For researchers
• Apply for a grant
• General guidelines for applicants
• Grant Conditions and IPR
• Project grants
• Equipment grants
• Small grants
• RD Lawrence Fellowship
• Clinical Training Fellowship
• Fulbright Diabetes UK Research Award
• AHP, nurse and midwife Research Training Fellowship
• PhD Studentship
• Our funding process
• Research Committee
• User Involvement – URRGAG
• Panels
• Managing your grant
• Questions about your grant
• Communicating your research
• Financial details and processes
• Help with involving participants
• Local and comprehensive research networks
• England
• Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland
• Diabetes Research Network
• DRN Research Group proposals
• IDF BRIDGES and D-START funding
• Islet cell transplantation
• What are islet cells?
• Pancreatic islets of Langerhans
• Islets - Frequently asked questions
• Islet cell transplantation - FAQ
• Islet cell transplantation - FAQ
• Islet cell transplantation - FAQ
• Patient selection criteria
• Contact the Research team

Professionals

• News, updates, prizes and alerts
• Updates
• Safer administration of insulin
• Call up for 2012 Named Lectures
• Rank Nutrition Lecture 2011
• Are you a GP who would like to get involved with Diabetes UK?
• National clinical audit of diabetes
• Key issues questionnaire
• Education for young people with diabetes evaluated
• Alert - incorrect criteria advertised for Mary MacKinnon Named Lecture
• Call for Named Lectures 2011
• Diabetes bulletin
• Diabetes bulletin archive
• Medical alerts
• Prizes and awards
• Diabetes Specialist Nurses (DSNs)
• Conferences and training
• previous conference - Annual Professional Conference 2010
• Annual Professional Conference 2011
• Diabetes UK events and conferences
• All events and conferences
• Diabetes UK training
• Teaching aids
• Diabetes awareness toolkit
• Food and diabetes slides
• Store tour for people with diabetes
• Education and skills
• Courses
• Diabetes as a cardiovascular disease
• Diabetes diploma course - Cardiff University
• Healthcare Professional courses and events submission form
• Honours degree in diabetes nursing (York)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes - University of Glamorgan
• Competencies - Feet
• Sexual dysfunction
• Encouraging dialogue
• Publications, reports and resources
• Diabetes Update
• Current issue
• Past issues
• Publications
• Online shop
• Reports, statistics and case studies
• Reports and statistics
• Audit Reports
• Case studies
• Tools
• Change to HbA1c values
• Diabetes Infobank
• Tell us about your care
• Hot topics
• Hot Topics form
• Useful links
• Diabetes Risk Score assessment tool
• Resources for patients
• Online shop and language centre
• Careline and advocacy services
• Supporting membership
• Support groups
• Balance magazine
• Financial services
• Most popular website pages
• Care events
• Diabetes UK Type 1 DVD starter pack scheme
• Sharing your practice
• Submit Your Example
• A - Z of examples
• Care Topics
• Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
• Children and Young People
• Commissioning
• Diabetes Care in Schools
• Early identification
• Emotional and Psychological support
• Eye screening
• Innovative care
• Integrated Care
• Patient education
• Patient held records and care planning
• Physical activity
• Pregnancy
• Sharps Disposal
• User involvement
• Weight Management
• Shared Practice Feedback
• About Shared Practice Database
• Diabetes UK Shared Practice Award 2011
• Shared Practice Award 2010 Winners
• Entry form
• Service improvement
• Year of Care
• Year of Care concept
• Year of Care programme
• Support for Year of Care
• Keeping in touch with Year of Care
• Help us help you
• Volunteering for professionals
• Professional Working Groups and Council of Healthcare Professionals
• PCT support services
• GP Surgery Network
• Diabetes in primary care
• Membership
• For people with diabetes
• For Healthcare Professionals
• Frequently asked questions
• What sort of membership do I need?
• What happens if I live overseas?
• What does the reduced rate of membership mean?
• What is Gift Aid?
• Where does my membership and donation go?
• What is a supporter number?
• What happens if I have any payment queries?
• Members' login area

About us

• Who we are
• History
• The founding of Diabetes UK
• RD Lawrence
• HG Wells
• Diabetes UK Roll of Honour
• Mission, vision and values
• Diabetes UK diversity statement
• Our strategic plan
• Devolution
• What we do
• Annual reports
• Impact report 2008
• Life changing support holidays for youngsters
• Getting fit to cut the risk
• Life transforming research
• Power to the children
• Making a difference by getting involved
• Impact Report 2009
• Improving lives, 75 years on
• Hitting the road
• Seeing the difference
• "Get Serious" about diabetes
• Pump up the volume
• Changing children's lives
• Leaving your legacy
• Online impact
• Volunteering impact
• Acknowledgements
• Annual report and accounts
• Our views
• Care recommendations
• Aspirin treatment in diabetes
• Good clinical practice guidelines for care home residents with diabetes
• Impaired glucose regulation (IGR)/ Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (NDH)/ Prediabetes
• Self-monitoring of blood glucose
• The arm as an injection site
• Position statements
• ‘Diabetic foods’ and food labelling
• Improving inpatient diabetes care – what care adults with diabetes should expect when in hospital
• Prioritising emotional well being
• Quality and Outcomes Framework revisions for 2008/9
• Self-monitoring of blood glucose
• Sweeteners
• Consultation responses
• Prescription charges review in England
• Proposals to implement Generic Substitution in primary care
• Diabetes UK and the NHS
• How we are governed
• Board of Trustees
• Membership
• Committees
• UK Advisory Council (UKAC)
• Membership
• Council of People Living with Diabetes
• Executive Team
• Douglas Smallwood
• Patron, President and Vice-Presidents
• Legal structure and constitution
• Legal information
• Terms and Conditions
• Acceptable Use Policy
• Information Policy
• Privacy Policy
• Links Policy
• Sponsorship
• Legal disclaimer
• Awards and standards
• Diabetes Challenge website - Best in Class - Interactive Media Awards
• Website of the Year
• Best website
• Fundraising standards
• Measure Up roadshow
• Everyclick charity challenge
• Third Sector Excellence Awards finalist
• Bendy bus viral video commendation
• Medals
• Angela Boucher
  (50 years)
• Alan Nabarro Medal (50 years)
• Robert Lawrence Medal (60 years)
• John Macleod Medal (70 years)
• Your medal stories
• Roger Westman's story (50 years)
• Jack Toft's story (60 years)
• Alec Boothroyd's story (70 years)
• Jobs
• Application process
• Training and development
• Benefits
• Staff profiles
• Senior Science Information Officer and Islet Project Coordinator
• West Midlands regional manager
• User Involvement Manager
• Special Events Manager
• News
• Bone 'turnover' could be linked to diabetes
• Press enquiries
• E-newsletter
• Contact us
• Supporter services
• Customer service standards and feedback
• Address change notification
• National Customer Service Week 2009
• Tell us what you think