✴1 American every 3 minutes is killed by diabetes and its complications

✴20.7 million adult Americans have diabetes, and of these, more than 6 million remain undiagnosed.

✴40 million Americans have “pre-diabetes”.

✴1 in 3 children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes during their lifetime.

✴Anywhere from 1 in 200 to 1 in 400 children have type 1 diabetes

✴1 hour – every hour someone is diagnosed with type 1.

✴3% - type 1 incidence increase each year.

✴20,000 – 36,000 new cases of type 1 onset per year

✴3 million – potential number of people in U.S. with type 1 diabetes

✴61% - The increase of Americans with diabetes since 1990

✴213,000 – The number of deaths annually due to diabetes in the U.S.

✴40% - The percentage of under-reporting of diabetes as a primary cause of death.

✴$132 -170 billion – the annual cost of diabetes to the United States.

✴6 - Diabetes is the 6th leading cause of death in the U.S.

✴1 – The ranking of diabetes as the cause of blindness, amputations, and kidney disease.

✴36% of American families cope with diabetes.

Source: American Diabetes Association – National Diabetes Fact Sheet

(www.diabetes.org/diabetes-statistics/national-diabetes-fact-sheet.jsp)

Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, (www.joslin.org)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) presentation - Partnership and Progress, March 29, 2005, Dr. Peter Van Etten, President & CEO.