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Heather Verry: Diabetes NZ Chief Executive on rise in diabetes cases · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Ray and Bridge concern over a sharp rising people with diabetes.
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  Speaker 1: Since twenty twenty one, there's been a nearly ninety six
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  Speaker 1: thousand new cases, which has taken the total to three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four thousand diabetes in New Zealand says
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  Speaker 1: this is a worst case scenario which will only get
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  Speaker 1: worse and CEO here that varies with me this morning
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  Speaker 1: here the good morning, oh good morning, thanks for being
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  Speaker 1: with me. This is from the Diabetes Register. How accurate
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  Speaker 1: are these numbers?
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  Speaker 2: Well as accurate as you can be, because one of
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  Speaker 2: the issues we have is we don't believe that the
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  Speaker 2: data is capturing everybody, and it's particlarly not kepturing the
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  Speaker 2: difference between type one and type two, which is an
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  Speaker 2: issue in itself. But we actually predict there's probably about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand out there that are undiagnosed.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and that undiagnosed with type two I'm assuming correct.
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  Speaker 1: So can we just clarify because these numbers three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty four thousand plus one hundred thousand you think
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  Speaker 1: are undiagnosed, they are type one and type two. What's
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  Speaker 1: the difference?
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  Speaker 2: Type one is an autoimmune disease, and you just get
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  Speaker 2: that there's nothing you can do to stop it coming,
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  Speaker 2: and it's something you have for life. So type two
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  Speaker 2: is one that generally comes up. It's because your pantcreas
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  Speaker 2: stops working over time, and it is generally health style
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  Speaker 2: related and it can be reversed.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the key, isn't it. The vast bulk
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  Speaker 1: of the increase is type two, which is lifestyle related,
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  Speaker 1: which means it's died and exercise and it shouldn't be happening.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, It shouldn't be happening. So this is why each
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  Speaker 2: month we do this education and awareness because we need
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  Speaker 2: to sort of say to people, you need to be aware,
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  Speaker 2: you need to get tested. Soon as you get tested,
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  Speaker 2: then at least you can be put on medication that
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  Speaker 2: will help you manage. And then the awareness is such
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  Speaker 2: that if you change your lifestyle it will reverse. It's
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  Speaker 2: really important.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's important, But I mean we've spoken about
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  Speaker 1: this for Heather many times, haven't we. This message is
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  Speaker 1: not it's clearly not getting through. What are some radical ideas?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you put warning diabetes labels on food,
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  Speaker 1: on soft drink? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a whole heap of initiatives. Really we looked
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  Speaker 2: across the waters and saw that in the UK they'd
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  Speaker 2: put in an intervention which was picking people up when
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  Speaker 2: they're newly diagnosed and putting them into a two year program.
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  Speaker 2: And this is starting to have some impact in the UK.
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  Speaker 2: They believe they've sort of managed to sort of stem
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  Speaker 2: the tide. As they say, so there are interventions, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot more education, a lot more support work that
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  Speaker 2: can be invested into the health society, health sector and
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  Speaker 2: just sort of given to make people aware of it.
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  Speaker 2: Even though their families have had diabetes, it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: to say that they have to have diabetes. That a
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  Speaker 2: few simple things and they needn't have it. And the
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  Speaker 2: challenging thing is we've got youngsters now getting diabetes and
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  Speaker 2: that's where it's really sad. So really does need to
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  Speaker 2: be some really firm support and education under certain sectors.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good message. Actually, it doesn't. Just because your
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  Speaker 1: parents had it or your grandparents had it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: you need to either. Here the very is with Diabetes
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand. She's the CEO. Thank you very much for
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