Partha Kar: The time to tackle rising type 2 diabetes is T2DaY
England’s 18-40 year olds with type 2 diabetes now exceed those with type 1.1 It’s worth pausing and reading that again. In adults under 40, a condition that’s usually associated with lower age groups and has an autoimmune aetiology is now outflanked by one usually associated with “middle age” and caused mainly by a combination of lifestyle, environmental, and societal factors. Perhaps this is an indictment of a society which, in trying to avoid accusations of nanny state-ism, has got caught up in the toxic debate around diets and has ended up widening deprivation gaps. In total, abo...