About 24 million people in the United States have diabetes; about 6.2 million of those people don't know that they have it.
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 | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Pat Truman, MATC |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology & Metabolism |
| Last Updated | September 17, 2008 |
Author:Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS
Last Updated: 09/17/2008
