Quote Originally Posted by Win2Win View Post
They are bloody stupid in the media, and the Beeb is one of the worse.

Today the headline is: Rates of diabetes soar in the UK

"From 1997 to 2003 there was a 74% rise in new cases of diabetes."

....and yet if you read the actual report itself the rate has changed from 26/100,00 to 43/10,000.

So an extra 17 people per 10,000 have diabetes now than in 1997. Doesn't look like it has SOARED when you look at the figures in simple terms does it?
So you don't think an extra 17/10,000 is significant ?
That means that statistically, 102,000 MORE people in scotland now have diabetes. I think this is significant, so why knock the BBC for at least alerting us to the problem ?