Four of them are seriously ill, six are in a stable condition and two more are improving.

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The 18-year-old was shot in both legs in Ardoyne on Tuesday night and was critically ill but is now in a stable condition in hospital.

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The charity says this is one reason why a quarter of children with type 1 diabetes are only diagnosed once they are already seriously ill with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life threatening condition that needs immediate specialist treatment in hospital.

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He said that most of the people who have the condition do not know they have it and suffer no ill effects.

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Women are known to have a higher incidence of the condition - and this has fed into the idea that high heels or ill-fitting fashionable shoes are to blame.

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Knowing that a child was susceptible to middle ear infections because of a family history of the condition would allow parents to control the child's environment, reducing its chances of becoming ill, he said.

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