Sweetness and blight - Times Online 24th January 2008

Almost exactly two centuries before Tutankhamun died in 1352BC, Hesy-Ra, an Egyptian physician, had described diabetes and had understood its symptoms, if not the pathology that caused them. About one in 20 of the UK population, but a much higher percentage of older, plumper people, have diabetes. But a third of those with the condition, presumably including many attending the current Tutankhamun exhibition at the O2, London, won’t know that they have it.

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