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<blockquote data-quote="AndBreathe" data-source="post: 1265856" data-attributes="member: 88961"><p>Whilst I couldn't challenge that 10% of the Birmingham population has Diabetes, I would probably want to throw into the mix that Birmingham is also a significantly and wonderfully multi-cultural society, with meaningfully large South Asian and Afro-Caribbean populations; all of whom are known to have a higher than usual genetic predisposition to develop diabetes. Obviously, that's not the whole story either, but it is worth noting.</p><p></p><p>I happen to live relatively (under 25 miles) from one of the two NIHR units in UK, which happens to site on-site with a large Diabetes Centre. At a recent DUK meeting, we had a presentation from one of the coordinators from the NIHR who, as well as describing their work, was recruiting for various trials (not all Diabetes related by any means), being run by the centre. Even though we also have a culturally very diverse population, most of whom fall into the ethnically higher risk populations, they have problems recruiting enough participants to their trials, from those populations - even when some of them are paid.</p><p></p><p>It's such a multi-layered problem, but in the background there does appear to be a bit of a ground swell developing for Change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndBreathe, post: 1265856, member: 88961"] Whilst I couldn't challenge that 10% of the Birmingham population has Diabetes, I would probably want to throw into the mix that Birmingham is also a significantly and wonderfully multi-cultural society, with meaningfully large South Asian and Afro-Caribbean populations; all of whom are known to have a higher than usual genetic predisposition to develop diabetes. Obviously, that's not the whole story either, but it is worth noting. I happen to live relatively (under 25 miles) from one of the two NIHR units in UK, which happens to site on-site with a large Diabetes Centre. At a recent DUK meeting, we had a presentation from one of the coordinators from the NIHR who, as well as describing their work, was recruiting for various trials (not all Diabetes related by any means), being run by the centre. Even though we also have a culturally very diverse population, most of whom fall into the ethnically higher risk populations, they have problems recruiting enough participants to their trials, from those populations - even when some of them are paid. It's such a multi-layered problem, but in the background there does appear to be a bit of a ground swell developing for Change. [/QUOTE]
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