Diabetes: The Facts
- Currently, there are 5 million estimated cases of diabetes in the UK
- 9 in 10 cases are type 2 diabetes, a preventable variant of the condition
- By 2030, estimations say over 17 million of us could have, or be at risk of, type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a preventable but potentially fatal condition, and in a lot of cases of type 2 diabetes, with the correct treatment, you can reverse your diagnosis.
How sustainable is your lifestyle for now and for your future health?
What if you could get an insight into how your lifestyle today, may seriously impact your health tomorrow, simply by taking a finger-prick blood test?
To find out if you need to take action now, The Slimming Clinic are here to help, with their new HbA1c Diabetes test.
Are you at risk of Type 2 Diabetes?
It is hard to know if you are at risk of type 2 diabetes without a blood test.
Getting to your GP to get a blood test can be time-consuming and with GPs overrun with patients, can take a while to get an appointment.
This is where The Slimming Clinic HbA1c diabetes at home test can help.
The best part?
You can order it today and have results and, more importantly, resolutions delivered back to by a GMC-registered doctor within just a couple of weeks.
One of the first things you can do in the process is assess your symptoms and risks of developing type 2 diabetes.
What Are The Symptoms and Risks Of Type 2 Diabetes?
The symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes vary from person-to-person, but find out if you have any of the risks or symptoms with our risk and symptom checker below:
RISKS:
- Being overweight
- Carrying any additional weight around the middle of your body
- Being inactive or having a sedentary lifestyle
- A family history of diabetes – parent or sibling
SYMPTOMS:
- Feeling thirsty all the time
- Feeling tired
- Cuts or wounds taking longer to heal
- Visual disturbances
- Urinating more frequently, especially at night
Do you suffer from 3 or more of those symptoms and risks?
Then you could be at risk, or already living with undiagnosed, type 2 diabetes.
The only way to know if these are Type 2 Diabetes symptoms is to order our HbA1c test kit and find out for sure.
What Are The Complications of Type 2 Diabetes?
Having type 2 diabetes puts you at a much higher risk of a number of health complications.
These health complications can range from stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, blindness, cancer and in some extreme cases, limb amputation – all of which require high levels of hospital care.
However, type 2 diabetes is a preventable condition, and in a lot of cases of type 2 diabetes, if the excess weight is lost and risks averted, you can often reverse your diagnosis.
What Do I Get With My Diabetes Test from The Slimming Clinic?
For just £71, you don’t just get a diabetes test from The Slimming Clinic, but a thorough follow up consultation with a healthcare practitioner.
This is because The Slimming Clinic know that understanding the results and knowing how to support your health is just as important as the results themselves.
For just £71, you get the following:
- 1 x HbA1c Diabetes Finger-prick Blood Test (RRP £59)
- 50-Minute Healthcare Practitioner Follow Up Consultation
- Lifestyle Assessment Guidebook
- Tailored recommendations on how to improve your health and well-being
- Test Result Booklet with your results from our independent laboratory
How Do I Take The HbA1c Diabetes Test?
Taking the HbA1c Diabetes test is easy, it is a small finger-prick home diabetes test, that gets sent to an independent laboratory to be analysed and following that, you have a full consultation with one of our GMC Registered doctors here at The Slimming Clinic to interpret the results.
What Are The Next Steps?
We know it can be frightening to be faced with your personal results regarding your risk of type 2 diabetes, but at The Slimming Clinic, we don’t just offer the test to diagnose you, we are also here to support you, and offer you the help of our doctors to help prevent or reverse a potentially lifechanging diagnosis.
Find out your risk, and secure your future health.
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