Profiles

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Sallie - Interview 36

Diagnosed 6 years ago. Sallie tried to control it with diet and exercise but has recently started metformin.

  • Background

    Sallie is a wife and mother with 3 grown up children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.

  • Age at interview 50
  • Sex/Gender Female

    • Darren - Interview 35

    Diagnosed 6 years ago. Darren takes humalog, metformin, atorvastatin and candesartan.

  • Background

    Darren is a baptist minister in training, married with 3 young children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.

  • Age at interview 34
  • Sex/Gender Male

    • Zoe - Interview 34

    Zoe was diagnosed 12 years ago. She also has polycystic ovary syndrome. She takes insulin.

  • Background

    Zoe is a hairdresser who lives with her partner and has no children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.

  • Age at interview 32
  • Sex/Gender Female

    • Lawrence - Interview 33

    Diagnosed a year ago, Lawrence takes gliclazide and losartan.

  • Background

    Lawrence works in the catering trade and is married with three young children. Ethnic background/Nationality: Born in Zimbabwe.

  • Age at interview 38
  • Sex/Gender Male

    • Kay - Interview 32

    Diagnosed 4 years ago. Kay took metformin for 2 years and now takes insulin.

  • Background

    Kay is a single mother, with a daughter aged 12. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.

  • Age at interview 34
  • Sex/Gender Female

    • Kathy - Interview 31

    Kathy was diagnosed with diabetes just before the interview. She was controlling it with diet and exercise.

  • Background

    Kathy is a retired nurse and sculptor, who is married with one adult son. Ethnic background/Nationality: White.

  • Age at interview 71
  • Sex/Gender Female

    • Harold - Interview 30

    Harold was diagnosed in 2000. At the time of interview he was taking metformin and simvastatin.

  • Background

    Harold is a retired teacher and clergyman, married with adult children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White US.

  • Age at interview 70
  • Sex/Gender Male

    • Ken - Interview 29

    Ken was diagnosed when he was 56. At the time of his interview he was taking metformin.

  • Background

    Ken is a retired academic, married with two grown up children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.

  • Age at interview 60
  • Sex/Gender Male

    • Isabel - Interview 28

    Diagnosed when she was 57. Isabel was taking metformin and pioglitazone at the time of interview.

  • Background

    Isabel is a retired solicitor who is married with children and grandchildren. Ethnic background/Nationality: White Canadian.

  • Age at interview 60
  • Sex/Gender Female

    • James - Interview 26

    Diagnosed 25 years ago, James takes metformin, doxazosin, lisinipril, gliclazide and sotacor.

  • Background

    James is a partially retired university porter who is married with two young sons and also a grown up son and daughter from his previous marriage. Ethnic background/Nationality: Born in...

  • Age at interview 67
  • Sex/Gender Male