Diabetes is recognised as a global epidemic, at the epicentre of a worldwide healthcare crisis with the International Diabetes Federation reporting that an estimated 415 million adults were living with the disease in 2015. There is no cure for diabetes.

Diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose in a sufferer’s blood is too high because the sufferer’s body cannot use it properly. This is because the sufferer’s pancreas doesn’t produce any insulin, or not enough insulin to help glucose enter the body’s cells – or the insulin does not work properly (known as insulin resistance).

There are two main types of diabetes – Type 1 and Type 2. Both types are serious, lifelong conditions with devastating complications.

For more information on diabetes and how to best manage it contact your national diabetes charity.