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Diabetes
Statistics - An
estimated 60 to 65 percent of people with diabetes have high blood pressure.
- 4 in 10 people
with Diabetes develop complications.
- In
the USA, for instance, amputation of the lower limb happens 15 times more often
in people with diabetes as opposed to those without.
- Approximately
8.1 million or 8.2% of all women in the United States have diabetes, however,
about a third of them do not know it.
- Approximately
7.5 million or 8.2% of all men in the United States have diabetes, however, more
than one third of these do not know it.
- Diabetes
is the seventh-leading cause of death in the United States.
- Diabetes
is the leading cause of adult blindness in the United
States and the single leading cause of kidney failure
and non-traumatic amputation.
- Women
with diabetes are 7.6 times more likely
to suffer from peripheral vascular disease.
- Kidney
disease is a frequent complication of diabetes, and often ends in kidney failure,
or end-stage renal disease.
- Diabetes
can cause impotence.
- Complications
of diabetes include: blindness, kidney disease, amputations,
heart attack
and stroke.
- Diabetes
is the leading cause of death by disease in Canada.
- Each
day approximately 2,200 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with diabetes.
- The
prevalence of diabetes among African Americans is about 70% higher than among
white Americans.
- For
every six white Americans who have diabetes, 10 African Americans have diabetes.
- People
with diabetes have an average life expectancy 15 years less than those without
diabetes.
- Diabetes
is the most frequent cause of non-traumatic lower limb amputations.
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