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<blockquote data-quote="RoseRodent" data-source="post: 163064" data-attributes="member: 28905"><p>Remember that this statistic is not only manipulated for fund-raising purposes but includes everyone with different ranges of control. It includes the teenager who denies she has diabetes, never tests, doesn't take her insulin and hasn't been to the clinic since diagnosis. It includes the youth admitted to hospital with sugars so high he's still critical and he decides to go home.(This is not anti-teen prejudice, these just happen to be both people I have met) It includes the diabetic abusing "recreational" drugs. It includes the diabetic alcoholic. It includes the insulin abusers who have found out how to use their diabetes to lose weight. </p><p></p><p>All of those people are not you, but they feed into the wider statistic of being T1 diabetic and then dying. Many of these people will have been on further diabetes interventions as early as their twenties, of course they have a reduced life expectancy if they are on dialysis by 35. The statistic either has not been broken down into good and poor control historically (longitudinal research of that nature ismind-bogglingly expensive) or they have decided not to break it down like that because it spoils their scary figure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoseRodent, post: 163064, member: 28905"] Remember that this statistic is not only manipulated for fund-raising purposes but includes everyone with different ranges of control. It includes the teenager who denies she has diabetes, never tests, doesn't take her insulin and hasn't been to the clinic since diagnosis. It includes the youth admitted to hospital with sugars so high he's still critical and he decides to go home.(This is not anti-teen prejudice, these just happen to be both people I have met) It includes the diabetic abusing "recreational" drugs. It includes the diabetic alcoholic. It includes the insulin abusers who have found out how to use their diabetes to lose weight. All of those people are not you, but they feed into the wider statistic of being T1 diabetic and then dying. Many of these people will have been on further diabetes interventions as early as their twenties, of course they have a reduced life expectancy if they are on dialysis by 35. The statistic either has not been broken down into good and poor control historically (longitudinal research of that nature ismind-bogglingly expensive) or they have decided not to break it down like that because it spoils their scary figure. [/QUOTE]
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