TYPE 1 DIABETES - FAST FACTS
- More than 2 million Canadians have diabetes.
- Over 200,000 Canadians have Juvenile Diabetes (Type 1)
- Canada has the third highest occurrence rate of Type 1 diabetes in children 14 years or younger in the world.
- Type 1 diabetes occurrence rate is rising by 3-5% per year; the greatest rise is in 5-9 year olds.
- Diabetes is the leading cause of death in North America.
- Diabetes is growing at an alarming rate. It is projected to be at epidemic proportions in the very near future. It is the one single disease that has the potential to collapse our health care system.
- Children with Type 1 diabetes must manage their disease 24 hours a day – every day. Just to stay alive they take multiple insulin injections or infuse insulin through a pump, continually monitor their diet and activity while pricking their fingers 8 times a day or more to check blood sugar levels. These readings drive their day minute by minute.
Can you imagine?
Children and their families live with the constant threat of devastating consequences-blindness, organ failure, nerve damage, heart attack, stroke, amputation and death.
Children with Type 1 diabetes wish for one thing- to be like everyone else.
Canada is the global leader in juvenile diabetes research. From the discovery of insulin in 1921 to promising breakthrough therapies, now being developed and tested, researchers and scientists in Canada are on the forefront. A cure for Juvenile Diabetes is close.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) was established to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through research. The Foundation has shown an unrelenting commitment since its inception. Ethical, responsible and accountable JDRF annually receives top rankings as a not for profit organization. www.jdrf.ca
Realities of the Road: Exercise and T1 Diabetes
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Sometimes the whole reason we're doing this hit us right in the face. Cyclebetes rider JJ gets off the bike after battling a low and talks about how it feels to have to live with Juvenile Diabetes. He, along with dozens of other riders who live with Type 1, took to the custom Norco tandem and put up massive miles to raise money for the JDRF research programs. |
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For more information on Type 1 diabetes, please visit www.jdrf.ca.
Canadian Diabetes Association
Juvenation: A Type 1 Diabetes Social Network
Tudiabetes: acommunity of people touched by diabetes
Wikipedia: Diabetes
World Diabetes Day
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