Who is affected by type 1 diabetes
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Who is affected by type 1 diabetes
About 20.8 million people in the United States have diabetes; about 6.2 million of those people don't know that they have it.1
About 5% to 10% of people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.1
- About 1 in every 400 children and adolescents has type 1 diabetes.1
- Type 1 diabetes most often develops in girls around 10 to 12 years of age and in boys around 12 to 14 years of age.
- The incidence of type 1 diabetes seems to be increasing, and there appears to be an increase among young children, especially from birth to age 4. It is not clear why this is occurring.2
- White people have a higher rate of type 1 diabetes than other racial groups.
References
Citations
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2005). National Diabetes Fact Sheet. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Available online: http://www.diabetes.org/uedocuments/NationalDiabetesFactSheetRev.pdf.
Devendra D, et al. (2004). Type 1 diabetes: Recent developments. BMJ, 328(7442): 750–754.
Credits
| Author | Robin Parks, MS |
| Editor | Alison Allen |
| Editor | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS |
| Associate Editor | Pat Truman |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology & Metabolism |
| Last Updated | November 21, 2006 |
| Last updated: | November 21, 2006 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Robin Parks, MS |
| Reviewed By: | Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine, Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology & Metabolism |
| Editors: | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS, Pat Truman |
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