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Review: The dark ages of diabetes

Clinical Diabetes, Curzon House, Curzon Street, Gotham, Nottinghamshire, NG11 OHQ, UK, robert.tattersall{at}virgin.net

At the time of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953, diabetes was still relatively uncommon. In the young the situation was profoundly depressing. Those whose lives had been saved by insulin in the previous 30 years were now succumbing to blindness, kidney failure and heart attacks for which there was no treatment. Clinics were poorly organised, patchily distributed and, except in major cities, run by general physicians with no training in the management of chronic disease. Yet, in the five years after the coronation, the seeds of many future advances including the delineation of diabetic angiopathy, photocoagulation and diabetes specialist nurses were sown by pioneers whose work went largely unrecognised at the time.

Key Words: diabetic angiopathy • photocoagulation • diabetes specialist nurses • history of diabetes.

The British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular Disease, Vol. 2, No. 6, 423-426 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/14746514020020060201


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