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Rei’s story: I would love to see attitudes to women with gestational diabetes change

Rei, who is a researcher for a national children’s charity, lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children. She shares her experience of being diagnosed with gestational diabetes (GDM) during bo...

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Robert's story: giving a voice to daily life with diabetes

Robert Resnick is a member of our Diabetes Research Steering Groups, a platform that brings together people affected by diabetes, researchers, and healthcare professionals. Robert experienced an ...

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Cathal's story: New lease of life after losing weight to prevent type 2 diabetes

Cathal, 69, is married with four grown-up children and five young grandchildren. He lost 22kg (more than three and a half stone) after going on a type 2 prevention course and reversed his prediabetes.

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Caron's story: Being a carer for my husband and managing my prediabetes

Caron Board, 68, who has prediabetes, has supported her husband with his type 2 diabetes since his diagnosis with dementia in 2023. She shares her experience. 

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Rani's story: Living with type 2 diabetes and fasting during Ramadan

Rani shares her experience of living with type 2 diabetes and embracing Ramadan.

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Hamza's story: Living with type 1 diabetes and embracing the spirit of Ramadan

Hamza shares his experience of living with type 1 diabetes and how he still fully embraces the spirit of Ramadan with his family.  

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Christina’s story: Trying to keep my blood sugar levels below the prediabetic range

Losing weight helped Christina, 35, lower her blood sugar levels to a healthy level. But maintaining this has been difficult, not helped by a new health condition.

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Amy’s story: ELSA and teplizumab offered my daughter hope to delay her type 1 diabetes

Amy is a mental health practitioner from the West Midlands who lives with type 1 diabetes. Her 12-year-old daughter Imogen took part in the ELSA study, which picked up she was in the early stages of t...

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Dino's story: I reversed my prediabetes on a type 2 prevention course

Constandinos (Dino), who lives in Northern Ireland, reversed his prediabetes after weight loss and other health changes with support from an online type 2 prevention course in 2025. He is married, has...

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