A Few Diabetes Statistics To Review - By: Allan Michael Taylor

When you study diabetes statistics, they present an interesting picture of the growth of this major disease, especially in the western world. The number of people who have diabetes is enormous. It is significant that the rate of the disease growth is accelerating.

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.

The mortality rate for diabetes related causes is the seventh highest in the United States. Usually diabetes is listed on death certificates as a contributing factor, rather than the cause of death. Heart disease individuals who are also diabetic and stroke victims who have diabetes are between two and four times more likely to die than those without diabetes.

People with diabetes often suffer from hypertension. Many diabetics also take medication to control high blood pressure readings. Blindness as a new case is more likely to have been caused by diabetes. The leading cause for kidney failure is diabetes. Most diabetic patients show some level of nervous system deterioration. Amputations that are not due to trauma are most likely due to nerve and circulatory damage due to diabetes in the amputee.

Diabetes statistics in the financial and medical cost realm are staggering. The total medical and health cost of an individual who has contracted diabetes is estimated at 2.4 times as high as in those who are free of the disease. During the 2007 year, total health, work and other costs incurred by individuals with diagnosed diabetes were %174 billion. When you add similar costs for those with pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes, it bring the U. S. Costs for the disease for one year at $218 billion.

About the Author

Kenn Fong, write in the health niche. Learn more about Type One Diabetes and Diabetes Types at The Diabetes Scoop

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