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Speaker 1: Ray and Bridge concern over a sharp rising people with diabetes.

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Speaker 1: Since twenty twenty one, there's been a nearly ninety six

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Speaker 1: thousand new cases, which has taken the total to three

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four thousand diabetes in New Zealand says

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Speaker 1: this is a worst case scenario which will only get

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Speaker 1: worse and CEO here that varies with me this morning

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Speaker 1: here the good morning, oh good morning, thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with me. This is from the Diabetes Register. How accurate

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Speaker 1: are these numbers?

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Speaker 2: Well as accurate as you can be, because one of

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Speaker 2: the issues we have is we don't believe that the

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Speaker 2: data is capturing everybody, and it's particlarly not kepturing the

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Speaker 2: difference between type one and type two, which is an

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Speaker 2: issue in itself. But we actually predict there's probably about

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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand out there that are undiagnosed.

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Speaker 1: Right, and that undiagnosed with type two I'm assuming correct.

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Speaker 1: So can we just clarify because these numbers three hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty four thousand plus one hundred thousand you think

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Speaker 1: are undiagnosed, they are type one and type two. What's

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Speaker 1: the difference?

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Speaker 2: Type one is an autoimmune disease, and you just get

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Speaker 2: that there's nothing you can do to stop it coming,

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Speaker 2: and it's something you have for life. So type two

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Speaker 2: is one that generally comes up. It's because your pantcreas

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Speaker 2: stops working over time, and it is generally health style

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Speaker 2: related and it can be reversed.

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Speaker 1: So this is the key, isn't it. The vast bulk

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Speaker 1: of the increase is type two, which is lifestyle related,

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Speaker 1: which means it's died and exercise and it shouldn't be happening.

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Speaker 2: Correct, It shouldn't be happening. So this is why each

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Speaker 2: month we do this education and awareness because we need

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Speaker 2: to sort of say to people, you need to be aware,

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Speaker 2: you need to get tested. Soon as you get tested,

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Speaker 2: then at least you can be put on medication that

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Speaker 2: will help you manage. And then the awareness is such

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Speaker 2: that if you change your lifestyle it will reverse. It's

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Speaker 2: really important.

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Speaker 1: I know it's important, But I mean we've spoken about

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Speaker 1: this for Heather many times, haven't we. This message is

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Speaker 1: not it's clearly not getting through. What are some radical ideas?

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you put warning diabetes labels on food,

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Speaker 1: on soft drink? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a whole heap of initiatives. Really we looked

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Speaker 2: across the waters and saw that in the UK they'd

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Speaker 2: put in an intervention which was picking people up when

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Speaker 2: they're newly diagnosed and putting them into a two year program.

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Speaker 2: And this is starting to have some impact in the UK.

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Speaker 2: They believe they've sort of managed to sort of stem

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Speaker 2: the tide. As they say, so there are interventions, there's

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Speaker 2: a lot more education, a lot more support work that

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Speaker 2: can be invested into the health society, health sector and

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Speaker 2: just sort of given to make people aware of it.

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Speaker 2: Even though their families have had diabetes, it doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: to say that they have to have diabetes. That a

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Speaker 2: few simple things and they needn't have it. And the

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Speaker 2: challenging thing is we've got youngsters now getting diabetes and

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Speaker 2: that's where it's really sad. So really does need to

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Speaker 2: be some really firm support and education under certain sectors.

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Speaker 1: It's a good message. Actually, it doesn't. Just because your

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Speaker 1: parents had it or your grandparents had it doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: you need to either. Here the very is with Diabetes

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