Diabetes: Children
(asked on 10th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of children with diabetes experience problems with their eyesight and kidneys before they reach the age of 18.
This question was answered on 17th March 2015
The information requested is not collected centrally by the Department.
The National Paediatric Diabetes Audit published on 9 March 2015 by the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health reported that 7% of young people aged 12 and over have excess protein in their urine which indicates a high risk of future kidney disease and over 14% have early signs of eye disease, putting them at risk of future blindness.