Diabetes Facts

With the modern life style; lack of activity; and fast food consumption, the diabetes is spreading among people. These bad habits make diabetes development easier. So, have you ever thought that you might be the next diabetes patient? What about diabetes risk factors that you might have? Your weight, age, race, or family history?

If you are not aware about how big the diabetes problem is, here are the shocking numbers according to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)

• 25.8 million people of all ages around the nation are affected by diabetes; this number equal 8.3 percent of the U.S population.
• 10.9 million of U.S residents ages 65 years and older had diabetes in 2010.
• Around 215,000 of U.S residents younger than 20 years old had diabetes in 2010.
• Newly diagnosed people who are 20 years old or older equal 1.9 million of the U.S population in 2010.
• Diabetes one of the major causes of kidney failure, blindness, heart disease and stroke.
• Diabetes is considered the seventh as far as causing death in the United States.