More women skip diabetes injections

UP TO a third of young women with diabetes are skipping insulin injections to lose weight, risking blindness, heart disease and death.

One woman said she could lose up to half a stone in a week by skipping injections.

Consultant endocrinologist Dr Graham Roberts said while it was difficult to know precisely how many young women under the age of 30 were abusing their insulin to lose weight, he believed it was up to one in three. He said diabetes was becoming more common in young people. “It is predominately type 2 form diabetes that is increasing, but type 1 diabetes has always occurred in young people.”