Activity: Talk with slides and video clips
Topic: Health
Host: Moray House Trust
Date: Tuesday 27th September 2022
Time: 11 AM Guyana
Recording: https://youtu.be/vBsufRWsiqo
This second taster session in the Samaan Tree series discussed diabetes, a prevalent condition in Guyana. The series is part of a new venture by the Trust aimed at those with curious minds and a little free time during the day. We plan to offer taster sessions fortnightly for the next few months. Each month we hope to offer one talk with cultural content and one that addresses other interests such as health, nutrition, gardening etc.
Diabetes is a common, typically life long, health condition, with around 1 in 10 adults being affected worldwide. In older age up to a quarter or more of adults may develop diabetes. It is a condition in which blood glucose (sugar) runs too high, and this can lead to damage in many parts of the body.
Our speaker, Nigel Unwin is a public health physician and epidemiologist with a longstanding interest in the distribution, determinants and prevention of diabetes and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs), both in the UK and in lower income settings outside the UK. Between 2010 and 2016 he was a Professor in Public Health at the University of the West Indies, based at the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. At UWI he became particularly interested in understanding how food systems are related to the high burdens of nutrition related diseases in the Caribbean and other small island states. He is now based back in the UK, at the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge. Professor Unwin will talk briefly about the two main types of diabetes and what we know of their causes.
Series: Let’s Talk Diabetes with Prof. Nigel Unwin
Session 1: Types and causes of diabetes
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/vBsufRWsiqo
TIMELINE
2.30: What is diabetes?
4.55: Prevalence of diabetes
9.30: What is happening in the body?
13.55: Type 1
16.44: Type 2
19.25: Symptoms
22.37: Prediabetes
24:21: Type 1 versus Type 2
25.25: Remission
26.48: Q&A: Tests to establish prediabetes
31.23: Q&A: How often to test (prediabetic)
35.09: Q&A: Public health policy measures
38.38: Q&A: Diabetes and high blood pressure
39.41: Q&A: Lifestyle changes
44.49: Q&A: Stress and blood glucose levels
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