Type 1 Diabetes (DM)

B. Reason to Listen:   According to the “2013 Fast Fact Sheet” from the American Diabetes Association, nearly 26 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes, which is nearly 10% of the U.S. population.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 8.3% of Americans, or more than 25 million people, are living with diabetes. (Gosse, 2014) My mother, my grandmother and I are part of that statistic. Diabetes is predominately found in middle-aged and older people. This can be people that are overweight and inactive.

According to the report from the center for disease and prevention (CDC) in 2011, nearly 26million Americans are suffering from Diabetes.3 Furthermore, CDC reported in 2014 that there are chances of 40% American adults developing diabetes in their lifetime and half of the ethnic minorities will be affected. It is worthwhile to note that obesity was reported as the reason for the tremendous increase.4

I'm sure many of us know someone, whether it be a family member or friend, who has Diabetes. In 2012, it was found that 29.1 million Americans or 9.3 percent of the population had diabetes. The disease was found to be the 7th leading cause of death in the United states. In a study, 69,071 death certificates listed Diabetes as the underling cause of death and 234,051 death certificates listed Diabetes as underlying or contributing cause of death.

Today “more than 29 million Americans are living with diabetes” (cdc.gov) this means that about 9 percent of the population in the United States is currently living with diabetes. There are two different subcategories of diabetes, type 1 diabetes which is mostly common in young children and adolescents and type 2 diabetes also known as adult onset diabetes, which is mostly found in adults, however is on the rise in children. “Type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90% to 95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes, and type 1 diabetes accounts for about 5%.” (Santos-Longhurst, Adrian. "Type 2 Diabetes Statistics”.)

Diabetes is a major medical problem in the US. In the year 2015, it was reported that 86 million Americans are diagnosed with prediabetes (ADA, 2016). Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States (CDC, 2016). Research has

Diabetes was the 7th primary cause of mortality in the United States in 2010 (ADA, 2016).

Diabetes is a very common disorder. It is the 8th leading cause of death worldwide. It is projected that the number of individuals with diabetes will almost double by 2030.

Diabetes mellitus, often shortened to just “diabetes,” can be diagnosed in a person in two different types. Diabetes mellitus type 1 can be inherited by a person’s genes, be it dominant or recessive, however, there is no clear pattern in the inheritance (“Type 1 Diabetes”). Despite an unclear pattern to familial inheritance of the disease, it is interesting to note that caucasians are the most susceptible to inherit this disease (“Genetics & Diabetes”). Despite this fact, susceptibility of type 1 diabetes among caucasians vary per living environment and geography (“Genetics & Diabetes). In the United States, in 100,000 people, 10 in 20 people will have type 1 diabetes while approximately 6.2 million are undiagnosed; on the other hand, approximately 10% of the world population have type 1 diabetes (“Type 1 Diabetes”). In the past 20 years, type 1 diabetes has been escalating 2-5% annually (“Type 1 Diabetes”) in the United States. Statistically, more people are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes than type 1 (“Type 1 Diabetes”).

It’s estimated that more than 16 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes. And nearly one in five people over 65 years of age is likely to be diagnosed with diabetes. There are 2 types of diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, is usually diagnosed in children and young adults. In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce insulin. In type 2 diabetes the most common form of diabetes, occurs when the body develops insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when the body does not use insulin properly. This is called insulin resistance. At first, your pancreas makes extra insulin to make up for it. But, over time it isn't able to keep up and can't make enough insulin to keep your blood glucose

(CDC), more than 30 million Americans have diabetes with 90% being type 2 (“Type 2 Diabetes”, 2017).

Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people around the world. Diabetes has become a rapidly growing issue that has drawn concern from both doctors and patients alike. Around 25 million people in the United States have diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes. Also around 80 million people have pre-diabetes mellitus. There are almost two million people who are diagnosed with diabetes each year. If diabetes rates don’t soon begin to drop, an estimated one in every three adults will have diabetes by the year 2050. Because of the rapidly growing problem posed by diabetes, 245 billion dollars of U.S. money is spent to aid in diabetes related research and to produce medicine.

Based on statistics from the Centers for Disease Control website, 17.0 million people in the United States, approximately 6.2% of the population, have diabetes. Of this 17 million people, 11.1 million are diagnosed and 5.9 million are undiagnosed. In the different age groups, about 151,000 people less than 20 years of age have diabetes, approximately 0.19% of people

The National Diabetes Statistics Report published in 2014, states that 29.1 million people or 9.3% of the U.S. population have diabetes amongst which about 21 million cases have been diagnosed and 8.1 million cases are still undiagnosed. Approximately 1.4 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year. Diabetes was found to be the 7th leading cause of death in the United States in 2010, with 69,071 death certificates listing it as the underlying cause of death, and a total of 234,051 death certificates listing diabetes as an underlying or contributing cause of death”. Diabetes also certainly poses a huge financial burden. In 2012, it accounted for $245 billion in total costs of diagnosed diabetes, $176 billion for direct medical costs, and $69 billion in reduced productivity (National Diabetes Statistics, 2014).

Diabetes represents a threat to the American public because the number of people developing this illness continues to grow at an alarming rate. The American Diabetes Association