Diabeties awareness week July 10 -16

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Okay guys what are you doing to promote Diabetes awareness week?

Is there something you are offering that l could make my clients aware of?
"Free PN assessment" at your clinic?

We are offering free shoe assessment & Dr Comfort socks at $15 a pair

You would be surprised how many we get a week who fit their shoes like this, see photo.

Sadly this one had an ulcer between 2nd and 3rd, photo taken whilst client was seated, ulcers were reportedly healed 2 months after the correct size shoe was supplied.

If any of you wish for a promotional poster and brochures please let me know or if you have some to promote what you are doing ...send me one of your posters and some business cards

 

Press Release:
Foot amputations a focus of Diabetes Week

 

Nice to see some Aussie based figures put togther.

Do they say where/how they came up with these figure, a reference of some kind please?

 

Diabetes WA have kindly sent me the full paper that these figure were drawn from, which is the attachment at the bottom of the page, plus this document they also supplied, enjoy...


Top Diabetes and Feet Statistics
There are approximately 1,027,000 Australians diagnosed with diabetes1
Diabetes is estimated to increase to 3.3 million by 2031 (in Australia)2
There are over 100,000 people in Western Australia diagnosed with diabetes1
The number of adults with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled since 1980, with almost 350 million now affected11
There are approximately 275 new diabetes cases in Australia every day2
Type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented by up to 60 percent by adopting a healthy and active lifestyle2
Diabetes shortens life expectancy by up to 15 years3
Approximately 85% of cases of diabetes are type 2 diabetes, while 10-15% are type 12
In Australia, for every diagnosed case of type 2 diabetes, there is thought to be another undiagnosed2
People who are obese are up to 3.2 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes2
Diabetes is the world’s fastest growing chronic disease2
There is no cure

Diabetes-related foot complications
It is estimated that 65 foot amputations are caused by diabetes every week in Australia4
Amputation is about 15 times more common in people with diabetes5
Diabetes is the leading cause of non-traumatic lower extremity amputation in Australia6
Diabetic foot disease is the most common cause of hospital admission in people with diabetes in Australia7
Amputation of one limb increases the risk of loss of the second limb and is associated with a 50 percent five-year mortality9
Up to 85 percent of all diabetic foot complications are preventable with education and increased awareness of diabetes foot care10

Indigenous Statistics
Indigenous Diabetes and Feet Statistics
Major amputations are 38 times more likely in Aboriginal people than in non-Aboriginal people (aged 25-49 years)8
Minor amputations are 27 times more likely in Aboriginal people than in non-Aboriginal people (aged 25-49 years)8
Nearly all (98%) of the amputations in Indigenous people were associated with diabetes8
In Australia, the rate of diabetes among Indigenous people is 3 times that of non-Indigenous people4
Hospital rates from diabetes for Indigenous people (compared to non-Indigenous people) are twice as high for type 1 diabetes, 15 times higher in type 2 diabetes4

References
1. NDSS Diabetes Map. Accessed 10 June 11
2. Diabetes Australia website. Accessed 15 June 2011.
3. Healthy Lifestyles 2002-2077, A Strategic Framework for Primary Prevention of Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease in WA 2002-2007m WADS.
4. AIHW Diabetes: Australian Facts 2008. 2008.
5. Lesley et al. The Lower Limb in People with Diabetes. Medical Journal Australia 2000: 173: 369-372.
6. Government of Western Australia, Department of Health. Cardiovascular and Diabetes & Endocrine Health Networks: Model of Care for the High Risk Foot. 2010.
7. Young MJ, Veves A, Boulton AJM. The diabetic foot: aetiopathogensis and management. Diabetes Metab Rev 1993; 9: 109-127.
8. Norman et al. High rates of amputation among Indigenous people in Western Australia. MJA 2010; 192 (7): 421.
9. Apelqvist J, Larsson J, Agardh C-D. Long term prognosis for diabetic patients with foot ulcers. J Intern Med 1993; 233: 485-491.
10. World Health Organisation [homepage on the Internet]. Geneva (CHE): WHO; 2005 [cited 11 August 2007]. World Diabetes Day 2005. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2005/world_diabetes_day/en/.
11. Danaei G et al. National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2•7 million participants. The Lancet. 25 June 2011. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60679-X