PEOPLE from low income and ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely change their lifestyle when displaying early warning signs of Type 2 Diabetes, Oxford researchers have found.
The team from Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences found that those who had multiple disadvantages such as poor housing, a low income, or conflicting cultural norms found it much harder to achieve a lifestyle change to prevent diabetes despite being warned of the risks of the condition.
Lead author Eleanor Barry said “These findings are important because diabetes is much more common in people from low-income and minority ethnic backgrounds."
She added: "Our findings suggest that additional work will need to be done to address the wider material and environmental influences on health, to ensure that the National Diabetes Prevention Programme achieves its goal of preventing a significant proportion of new cases of diabetes."
In 2016-17 there were around 29,500 GP-registered patients in Oxfordshire with a recorded diagnosis of diabetes, up from 27,900 in 2015-16.
Around 90 per cent of these cases are Type II Diabetes.
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