Statistics about Diabetes



Posted: Monday, April 12, 2010

by Henry Fong
Feng Shui Absolutely

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.

U. S. Statistics shows that about 8 of every 100 adults and children in the country now have diabetes. This means that 18 million individuals in the boundaries of the United States had diagnosed diabetes in 2007. In addition, there are six million individuals who are self-diagnosed, but don't have a formal physician's diagnosis. Almost 60 million people in addition to these are considered pre-diabetic with the likelihood of contracting full-blown diabetes.

Looking at these statistics a little more closely by age group, you will see that for children under age 20, a group of four to six hundred children will include at least one who has juvenile or Type 1 diabetes. Teenagers who are overweight during the adolescent years have a rate of pre-diabetes of one in six. The Type 2 form of the disease is appearing at a younger and younger age.

The diabetic rate for adults age twenty to sixty is almost eleven percent. Amongst those age sixty and older, diabetic cases reach a level of more than twenty-three percent. Overall cases of diabetes in men is slightly higher than in women. The rate for diabetes cases in blacks and Hispanics is nearly twice as high as that of whites and Asian races.

In the U. S., diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death. It is a contributing cause of death, rather than being a cause in itself. For example, heart disease patient deaths with diabetes are between two and four times as high. The same is true of stroke patients who die. They are two to four times as likely to have had 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.

Kenn Fong, writer. To find out more on Diabetes Statistics, visit his web site The DiabetesScoop.
Henry Fong is a Feng Shui Consultant based in Malaysia. He provide Feng Shui consultation for both residential as well as commercial properties via his on-site as well as off-site services over the Net. www.henryfong.com
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