Striking statistics from this story (click the link for the full article): 23% rise in type 1 diabetes incidence over an eight-year period ending in 2009. ...researchers have no explanation for why the autoimmune form of the disease is growing at such a clip. The CDC estimates that there are 18.8 million Americans who have been diagnosed with both types of diabetes and another 7 million undiagnosed, costing $116 billion in direct medical costs. Of those, between 5% and 10% are thought to have type 1 diabetes. Rising at a rate of 3% a year incidence of type 1 diabetes nearly doubles every 20 years. About 80% of type 1 diabetics dont have a close relative with the disease.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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