Are more people getting Type 1 in their late twenties and early thirties?

[KennyA]

I feel like this should be a more mainstream issue than it is. This is basically what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been talking about for years and the media calls him a crank and conspiracy theorist. Why are more people getting chronic diseases?

Shouldn't we be trying to find out the cause so we can stop it? Even with modern technology like the closed loop system, type 1 diabetes is a terrible affliction and it costs the taxpayer enormous sums of money.

It's the elephant in the room that successive governments are trying to ignore. The same source (Bilous and Donnelly) estimate that 17% of all NHS resource will be spent on diabetes by 2035. They weren't exactly right about their last prediction, because the 9% forecast level was reached a few years early. And, of that percentage:

-75% of resource goes on managing the long-term vascular complications (blindness, amputations, CVD etc), only a small fraction goes on diabetes treatments and surveillance

-90% of all resources are spent on type 2

 

[Ushthetaff]

Diagnosed age 17 in 1980, about two weeks after I got knocked unconscious playing 5 a side footy . Back then you were T1 or T2 and that was it. I was told that T1 normally gets diagnosed between the ages of 16-25 , like the treatment things and knowledge have definitely changed since then

 

[SueJB]

I was 68 when T1 struck

 

[jaywak]

Maybe just the stress of being a teenager is enough for an autoimmune problem to occur in our bodies , I think at 16 when I was diagnosed I was so stressed out with leaving school, getting a job and family problems I am not surprised my body rebelled , with people saying nowadays they are so stressed out all the time maybe that could be contributing to more later in life diagnosis happening .