Type 1 Diabetes Facts
When it comes to type 1 diabetes, did you know:
- Diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide, and the World Health Organization estimates it will affect 380 million by 2025.
- As many as 3 million Americans have type 1 diabetes.
- It is the leading cause of kidney failure, adult blindness, and non-traumatic amputations, and a leading cause of nerve damage, stroke, and heart attacks.
- In 2007, diabetes accounted for $174 billion in health-care costs in the United States. (source)
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