About one in every 400 to 600 children and adolescents has type 1 diabetes.

Diabetes Cost $132 million dollars in the year of 2002

Type 1 diabetes is a LIFE LONG disease!

Up to 24,000 diabetics lose their eye sight annually

Type 1 diabetics are at high risk for: -blindness -kidney problems -nerve damage -high cholesterol -seizures

Diabetes is one of the top 5 leading causes of death in the U.S. 73,138 a year die from diabetes!!

Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S

After 15 years of diabetes, 97 percent of people show some signs of retinopathy

The vast majority of the Americans on dialysis or waiting for kidney transplants are diabetic

The cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown, but it is believed that people inherit a tendency to develop diabetes, and that viruses may be involved.

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