Are you experiencing these common Diabetes symptoms?

• Increased need to urinate
• Feeling thirsty
• Getting up to pee in the night
• Feeling very tired
• Cuts or wounds taking longer to heal

Take a quick and simple Diabetes blood test at home or in our clinics to check your average blood glucose levels and identify whether you are at risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes, an illness which can take up to 10 years off your life if untreated.

More than 700 people die prematurely every week from Diabetes in the UK.

If you have diabetes, you’re twice as likely to have heart disease or a stroke than someone who doesn’t have diabetes—and more likely to have them at a younger age.

The only way to check if you have, or are at risk of, diabetes is with a blood test, like this one, which checks your long-term blood sugar levels.

It is estimated that over 1 million people in the UK have type 2 diabetes without realising.

This diabetes blood test helps you to measure your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by checking your HbA1C levels, or average blood sugar, over the past 3 months.

A high HbA1c result means that you have too much sugar in your blood. HbA1c or glycated haemoglobin is made when glucose (sugar) in your body sticks to your red blood cells. If your body cant use sugar properly, more of it sticks to your blood cells and builds up in your blood. Over extended periods of time, this causes significant health complications such as nerve damage, heart disease, stroke, vascular dementia, sight loss, poor wound healing, limb loss and more.

You may want to check your risk of diabetes if you have symptoms such as:

• Frequent urination
• Ongoing fatigue and tiredness
• Unexpected weight loss
• Feeling thirsty all the time

This blood test is also useful if you have any risk factors for developing diabetes like being overweight, leading a sedentary lifestyle or if diabetes runs in your family.

If you are already taking steps to improve your diabetes risk, this easy and affordable test helps you to see how well your body is controlling glucose, so that you can see the impact lifestyle changes are having on your diabetes risk.