Information on Diabetes for Patients:

[These links open in a separate window with information provided by various diabetes websites]

• What is diabetes?
  • Information for teenagers
  • Information for children
• What are the various types of diabetes?
  • Type 1 diabetes
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Other types
• Those at risk of diabetes:
  • Calculate your risk score
  • Understanding your risk score
  • Diabetes risk factors
  • Reduce your risk
• Signs and symptoms:
  • Signs and symptoms of diabetes
  • Diabetes and its symptoms
• Diabetes and old age
  •  65+ years old: Keeping well with your type 2 diabetes
  • Living with dementia and diabetes
• Diabetes and steroids:
  • Type 2 diabetes and steroid tablets
• Diabetes and pregnancy:
  • Diabetes and pregnancy
  • Diabetes and pregnancy
  • Gestational diabetes
• Diabetic complications:
  • Hypo- and hyper-glycaemia
    • Hypoglycaemia explained
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
    • DKA
    • Type 2 diabetes and diabetic acidosis
  • Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state (HHS)
  • Eyes (Diabetic retinopathy):
    • How to avoid?
    • How is it treated?
  • Feet:
    • Taking care of your feet
    • Everyday foot care
    • Foot checks
    • Looking after your feet when you have diabetes
  • Kidneys (Diabetic nephropathy)
    • Diabetes and your kidneys
  • Nerves (Diabetic neuropathy)
  • Cardiovascular (heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease)
• Blood sugar testing:
  • Blood sugar testing
  • The importance of glucose control
  • Blood glucose testing and insulin injection technique
  • Managing mealtime insulin
  • Flash glucose monitoring (Freestyle Libre) and Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)
  • Flash glucose monitoring
• Annual review:
  • Annual diabetes checks
•  Lifestyle:
  • Exercise
  • Diet:
    • Healthy eating
    • Recipes
    • Glycaemic index
    • Carb counting
    • Enjoy food
    • Fruit juices and smoothies
    • Alcohol
    • Fasting
      • Ramadan
• Diabetes treatments
  • Tablets for diabetes
  • Keeping safe with insulin therapy
  • Things you need to know about injections
  • Insulin
  • Insulin pumps
  • Islet cell transplants
  • Weight loss surgery (Bariatric surgery)
• Diabetes UK Gold Medals:
  • 50 years of diabetes: The Alan Nabarro medal
  • 60 years of diabetes: The Robert Lawrence medal
  • 70 years of diabetes: The John Macleod medal
  • 80 years of diabetes: The HG Wells medal
• Education:
  • DAFNE (for Type 1 diabetes)
  • DESMOND (for newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes)
  • X-PERT (for Type 1 and 2 diabetes)
•  Miscellaneous:
  • Driving
    • Safe driving in diabetes poster
    • Safe driving and the DVLA
    • Diabetes and driving
  • Diabetes and enteral feeding
  • Diabetes and pancreatic exocrine insufficiency
  • Smoking
  • Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs
  • Free prescriptions
  • Sick days:
    • Type 1 Diabetes: What to do when you are ill?
    • Type 2 Diabetes: What to do when you are ill?
  • Flu vaccine
  • Travel:
    • Diabetes and travel
  • Insurance
  • Employment
  • Sex
  • Menopause:
    • Diabetes and the menopause
  • Emotional issues
  • Diabetes glossary
• Some related conditions
• Information in other languages