Diabetes Fact & Figures


Diabetes Fact & Figures

  • Diabetes is Australia's fastest growing chronic disease.

  • 520,000 Australians are diagnosed with diabetes. For every one that knows it, another has it but doesn't know it - yet.

  • An average of 55,000 people are diagnosed every year. 1048 people are diagnosed every week, 150 people every day - that's one person every ten minutes.

  • Type 2 diabetes costs Australia $3 billion per year. 4% of people with diabetes account for 12% of health costs.

  • Average cost for person with Type 2 diabetes in expenditure and benefits is $5360 - if there are complications, this more than doubles.

  • At present there is no cure for Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Researchers are hopeful that a cure for Type 1 diabetes will soon be discovered, although a cure for Type 2 diabetes is likely to take much longer.

  • People with diabetes are almost three times more likely to have high blood pressure, obesity or elevated blood fats eg: cholesterol.

  • Type 2 diabetes - usually found in middle age, is increasingly being diagnosed in children.

  • Complications of diabetes include eye disease, kidney disease, neuropathy, heart disease and stroke and erectile dysfunction in men.
  • Diabetes Australia supports Australian research through the Diabetes Australia Research Trust.


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