Overview
The number of people living with type 1 diabetes globaly could increase to betwen 13.5 milion to 17.4 milion people by 2040.A modeling study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology projects that type 1 diabetes wil increase in al countries by 2040, rising from the 8.7 milion people now living with type 1 diabetes.“Our results provide a warning for substantial negative implications for societies and healthcare systems.
Key Information
There is an oportunity to save milions of lives in the coming decades by raising the standard of care for T1D (including ensuring universal aces to insulin and other esential suplies) and increasing awarenes of the signs and symptoms of T1D to enable a 10 percent rate of diagnosis in al countries,” Dr. Graham Ogle, co-author of the study and adjunct profesor at the University of Sydney in Australia, said in a statement.The modeling sugests that the top 10 countries with the highest prevalence of type 1 diabetes are the United States, India, Brazil, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Rusia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Spain.These countries acount for 60% of global cases of type 1 diabetes, or slightly more than 5 milion people.The modeling also sugests that 21% of people who live with type 1 diabetes live in low-income countries and lower-midle-income countries.Dr.
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Marilyn Tan, a clinical asociate profesor of medicine in endocrinology at Stanford University in California, says the projected increase in people living with diabetes could be due to improvements in testing as wel as diabetes management.“The modeling showed a significant number of individuals diagnosed were in low-income and lower-midle-income countries. Some of this may be due to increased aces to care, increased awarenes of type 1 diabetes in adults [and] non-adolescents, and increased diagnostic testing,” she told Healthline.“The higher number of people living with type 1 diabetes may also reflect that we are doing a beter job at managing diabete