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Statistics about Diabetes

By: Kenn Fong

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When you study diabetes statistics, some frightening facts are readily apparent. An enormous number of people have diabetics in the world today. Additionally, diabetes is increasing at rate that is taxing the financial, medical and insurance infrastructure.

Looking at statistics for diabetes in the United States alone shows that nearly eight percent of the population in 2007 had the disease. Diagnosed cases included 18 million individuals just in the U. S. And and additional 6 million people who are undiagnosed. Almost 60 million more people are noted as being in a pre-diabetic state. These are people who are likely to move into diagnosed diabetes unless drastic measures in diet and lifestyle are made.

If you break these statistics down by age group, it can be even more troubling. For the under-twenty age group, one child of every four hundred to six hundred children has type 1 diabetes. In the overweight adolescent group, age twelve through nineteen, one in every six teens are pre-diabetic.

Between ages twenty and sixty, the diabetic rate increases to eleven percent overall. Over age sixty, more than 23 percent of people contract diabetes. Men tend to contract the disease at a somewhat higher rate than women do. Amongst blacks and Hispanics, diabetes occurs at a rate almost twice as often as the rate in non-Hispanic whites and Asians.

Diabetes is ranked as the seventh highest cause of death in the United States. It is a major contributing cause of death due to stroke and heart disease. The death rate of heart disease patients who are diabetic is nearly four times as high as that of heart disease patients who do not have diabetes. The stroke risk is two to four times as high when diabetes is a factor.

In individuals with diabetes, there is more likely to be high blood pressure readings. Many of the diabetic patients take medications for hypertension. Diabetes is the leading cause of new blindness cases. It is the main cause of renal failure. Almost three-quarters of people with diabetes also have various levels of damage to the nervous system. Lower limb amputations that are not caused by trauma are overwhelmingly due to diabetic conditions.

The diabetes statistics are frightening both in terms of financial costs and health costs. Medical costs for those with diabetes are higher than for those without diabetes. In fact, the cost is about two and a half times as high. The 2007 costs of diagnosed diabetes in the United States were $174 billion. In addition, undiagnosed diabetes costs and pre-diabetes costs bring the costs of diabetes in just the one country and one year to a staggering $218 billion.

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Kenn Fong, writer. To find out more on Diabetes Types], visit his web site The DiabetesScoop.

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