BMJ 1997;314:1486 (17 May)

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South Asian diabetic patients need more education about their illness

Editor–I hope that Veena Soni Raleigh's article on the necessity to plan now for the future health needs of Britain's South Asians is read and understood by the people who matter (Britain's health planners and the holders of the health budgets).1 We are certainly facing a serious problem for the South Asian community in the next few decades. The article quotes a study from Nottingham in 1990 on the knowledge of diabetes and its complications among South Asians attending a hospital diabetic clinic, which compared them with matched white diabetic patients.2 A more recent study, of 200 randomly selected South Asian patients attending Manchester Diabetes Centre in 1993-4, found similar results: 168 patients could not name any diabetic complications, 99 were unsure of the reasons for monitoring and controlling glucose concentrations, 175 did not know the purpose of attendances at the clinic to screen for early complications, and 183 did . . . [Full text of this article]


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Diabetes and hypertension in britain's ethnic minorities: implications for the future of renal services
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