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rarity of type 1 diabetes......

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jonesy

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what is the ratio of type 1 sufferers to healthy people?

am i right in thinking around 1 in about 100,000?

jonesy
 
in the UK, about 1 in 20 or 1 in 25 are diabetic.

roughly 10% of these will have type 1 diabetes, so if these numbers were, the number of type 1s in the country would be about 1 in every 200 or 250 people.

I'd say it's at least 1 in 500 but probably no more than 1 in 250.
 
The website Patient UK says that about 1 in 300 people develop Type 1 diabetes in the UK.
 
There's roughly 2.5 million diabetics in the UK, around 10% of these are type 1.

Nigel
 
ok, so 10% of 2.5 mil is 250,000

population about 62 mil
so 62,000,000 divided by 250,000 is 248.

so yeah.....around 1 in every 250 people.

thanks, jonesy
 
...and it's on the rise, but nobody knows why. Currently rising at more than 6% a year. Odd isn't it? Type 1 isn't linked to obesity, so it isn't that, and it occurs all over the world, so it's not just a Western lifestyle thing, and it occurs more or less evenly across the population (unlike type 2, where certain ethnic groups seem to get it more than others).
 
I read a link someone posted here recently, it said the risk of type 1 diabetes is slightly increased if a parent has it, so could the increase in cases be due to the fact people with type 1 diabetes are healthy for longer so are having more children?
 
You're right, the risk is very slightly raised, but as I understand it, nothing like enough to explain the rise in type 1. We are baffling all the experts! (I kind of like that :? )
 
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