Adults with learning disabilities and newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D) have better short-term glycemic control.

People with a learning disability who have diabetes are at higher risk of dying from the condition and progressing to severe ...

Academic and campaigner, Dr Dawn Cavanagh, knows how devastating it can be when things go wrong for people with learning ...

Patients with learning disabilities are likely to progress faster to severe type 2 diabetes and are also at greater risk of dying from it.

The 2023 "Learning from Lives and Deaths - people with a learning disability and autistic people" (LeDeR), which investigates deaths in UK adults with ...

Purpose To test the potential ability of the MTI photoscreener to facilitate screening for significant refractive errors in children and young adults with severe learning disabilities. Methods ...

Assisted Dying and people with learning disabilities. Professor Irene Tuffrey Wijne, a specialist on palliative care for those with learning disabilities who has studied how the Euthanasia legislation ...

The sister of a man with severe learning disabilities, who died after being found next to his deceased carer father, has spoken of her anger at NHS failings. David Lodge, 40, who was from Hull, lived ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. Yesterday’s announcement that a further 150,000 adults with ...

The researchers found that adults with learning disabilities had lower odds of poor glycemic control, faster insulin initiation, and double the risk for all-cause and diabetes-related mortality, ...

But the most common age of death for people without a learning disability is about 87 years old. This is 20 years longer.