How common is type 1 diabetes?
Type 1 diabetes is much less common than type 2. But around a third of a million to half a million Americans have it.
This is what we know from the research.
- About 20 million Americans have diabetes. That's about 7 percent of people in America. But only a small percentage of people with diabetes have type 1.1
- Around a third of a million to half a million Americans have type 1 diabetes.2
- About 5 children per 100,000 are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in America each year.3
- Type 1 diabetes is getting more common. The numbers all over the world are increasing each year, and children are being diagnosed younger. But we don't know why this is.4 5
Sources for the information on this page:
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. National diabetes statistics. November 2005. Available at http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/statistics (accessed on 2 June 2008).
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH. Diabetes in America. 2nd Edition, NIH, NIDDK, NIH Publication: 1995.
- The DIAMOND Project Group. Incidence and trends of childhood Type 1 diabetes worldwide 1990-1999. Diabetic Medicine. 2006; 23: 857-866.
- World Health Organization. Definition, diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus and its complications: report of a WHO consultation. Geneva, 1999.
- Onkamo P, Vaananen S, Karvonen M, et al. Worldwide increase in incidence of Type I diabetes - the analysis of the data on published incidence trends. Diabetologia. 1999; 42: 1395–1403. 10651256
This information was last updated in Jul 04, 2008
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