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| ... If there’s one condition that assaults the sleep of our health care bureaucrats more than any other, it’s got to be Type 2 diabetes, and although I really don’t care how many sleeping pills |
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are simple:
1) Type 2 diabetes and its complications are increasing at an alarming rate in the overall population; thus, Type 2 diabetes used to be the 7th leading cause of |
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2) Type 2 diabetes is hitting younger and younger people and is particularly affecting certain high-risk populations; thus, this condition, which used to be known as adult-onset diabetes because |
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| health care bureaucrats have to take to get to sleep and how worried they get at night (hey, I figure they should be able to lull themselves to sleep thinking about the rich pensions they’re going to get when they retire, or better yet, if they get fired), I must say that I do relate to them somewhat because I too lie awake at night worrying about Type 2 diabetes, not because I have it but rather because if things don’t change |
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we never saw it in under 40-year-olds, is now increasingly diagnosed in 8 and 10-year-olds; and as for groups at special risk, Type 2 diabetes seems to develop up to 3 times more easily in aboriginal populations and in South Asians, 2 groups with a growing demographic clout in BC
3) We’re aging on average as a population, and the risk of getting Type 2 diabetes increases directly with age; and most perversely perhaps, |
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quickly, Type 2 diabetes will cost us more – way, way more – than that god-awful boondoggle known as the bailout of the auto industry (and all you fools who voted for him thought that Harper would be different! Ha ha and ha).
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death but now it’s in 6th place; moreover, American studies (and it’s likely little different up here) claim that 1/3 of the population (some reports claim it’s actually even higher than that) already either has frank diabetes or has pre-diabetes (meaning that they are at imminent risk of developing full-fledge dia-betes)
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4) We can now keep people alive much longer with some of the complications that used to routinely kill Type 2 diabetics much earlier in the course of their illness – strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, amputations, peripheral
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