Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus
Diabetologists and endocrinologists provide advice to people of all ages after childhood including the transition to adulthood on a variety of metabolic and endocrine conditions.
Type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition of adulthood which eventually develops in 10% of the UK population, and through its impact on arterial disease consumes some 8-10% of health care resources. Type 1 diabetes and other forms are much less common, but often difficult for the person with the condition to manage, lifelong. They may have devastating impact on visual, cardiovascular, renal and nervous systems if expert professional advice is not available.
Endocrine conditions are diverse in their requirement for specialist medical advice, but their impact is also lifelong. Many pose a diagnostic challenge, and in some the application of new but only partially effective treatments requires fine judgement. Endocrine disorders affect many body systems, and call for expertise in metabolic disease, clinical biochemistry, cardiovascular disease. neurology, disorders of the ear nose and throat, and others.
