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Crunching Diabetes numbers 6
- Diabetes has caused more then 233,000 deaths a year. - 2/3 people with diabetes have died from a stroke or heart attack. - 55 people with diabetes will go blind from it every 24 hours. - ever 24 hours 810 people will die and diabetes will be the cause. - They think that in 2050 that 48 million will die as a cause of diabetes. - Having diabetes can cause your risk of dieing twice as high then someone without diabetes as the same age as someone with diabetes. []

Disease 3
- Thousands of people live with type 1 diabetes. - Many people who have type 1 have kidney disease. - There are 1 in 3 people with kidney disease that their kidneys fail. []

Diabetes ripple 2
- The Americans that have diabetes in 2007 cost the us $218 billion in that year alone. - Poor diabetes management is the likely cause of heart disease in people with diabetes.

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Public health 8
- Diabetes is were the both rejects or doesn't make insulin. -Type 1 diabetes is were children,teens, and young adults have diabetes. -Type 2 diabetes is in adulthood but now they are finding out teens and young adults have it. -Gestational diabetes is were a woman get diabetes during pregnancy and the woman normal don't have it after the baby is born but there are cases were the woman has diabetes for the rest of her life. - More then 20 million Americans have diabetes and another 40 million have pre-diabetes. - Type 2 diabetes develops over a long period of time but type 1 diabetes develops over a short period of time. -When a person is diabetic there pancreas doesn't make enough insulin. - Overweight children at the age of 10 have risk factors of having diabetes. - After having diabetes for many years it can cause nerves and kidney damage.

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New diabetes- cancer link 3
- When you have type 2 diabetes and your overweight you have a 30% higher chance of getting cancer. - Insulin cases cells to divide rapid growth of cells which opens the door to cancer. - The pancreas and liver are the targets of cancer because they are stressed because of diabetes.

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The ravages of diabetes 8
- End-stage renal disease is a nervous system disease caused by diabetes. - There has been a 23% rise in death in women with diabetes. - African-Americans are almost 50% likely to develop diabetic retinopathy. - This is the leading cause of blindness. - in 2002 44,000 with diabetes began treatment for end-stage renal disease. - there are 4,000 new case of end-stage renal disease each year. - Men with diabetes are two times as likely to experience erectile dysfunction. -poorly controlled diabetes in a women pregnancy in the second or third trimesters can pose risk to both the mother and child. - Diabetes can lead to a biochemical imbalance that can lead to different diabetic comas.

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What men need to know 5
- That mean with diabetes have a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and blindness. - Men with diabetes have to discuss personal issue but not all want to because of embarrassment. - Men with diabetes can have a low testosterone. - Men are surprised that anxiety, stress, and depression are associated with diabetes. - Men who are depressed don't monitor their blood sugar close enough. []

Is diabetes an epidemic 5
- Shorten life spans for African-Americans with diabetes. - Diabetes cause blood vessels to harden and age. - Diabetes in African-Americans is caused by a slow active lifestyle. - African-American girls at the 18 years old there activity rate has gone down twice the amount of a white girl the same age. - fat is not good well belly fat isn't it can cause Diabetes.

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