The U.K.'s NICE has updated its diabetes guidelines, according to reports. The organization aims to promote better adherence to normal blood glucose levels among young people suffering from type 1 or 2 diabetes.
When type 1 diabetes is suspected, the new guidance for children and young patients recommends providing a same-day referral to the multidisciplinary paediatrics diabetes team, in order to facilitate quick diagnosis and care can.
The new guidelines recommend explaining to young patients and their families how achieving daily HbA1c and blood glucose levels as near to normal as possible can help prevent long-term complications. The patients will also be advised to take routinely five capillary blood glucose tests a day in order to help monitor this.
The guidelines also recommend to adults with type 1 diabetes lowering target HbA1c levels to 48mmol/mol (6.5%) or lower.
The chief executive of NICE, Sir Andrew Dillon, declared that, while the standard of diabetes care varies across the NHS, the new updated guidelines will help more people to receive the best support and treatment.
According to Sir Dillon, the guidance recommends cost-effective care and advice to NHS organisations on setting up specialist services to reduce the risk of diabetes-related amputation and prevent serious illnesses linked to diabetes.
Meanwhile, according to reports, another study conducted on over 45,000 people in Wiltshire has found that they are at risk of type 2 diabetes. It is estimated that in the south-west around 527,087 people over the age of 16 have high levels of blood sugar, putting them at risk of type 2 diabetes. Of these, 11.6 percent of the population or 45,403 live in Wiltshire.
The report has been released by Public Health England (PHE). According to the data released, it was also found that 26 percent of people at risk could be prevented from developing diabetes type 2 just by good health care.
According to statistics, it is estimated there type 2 diabetes lead annually to 22,000 early deaths and the disease costs the 10 percent of its budget -- NHS £8.8bn every year.