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Resources
General Diabetes Facts
Type 1 Diabetes Facts
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There are currently more than 194 million people with diabetes worldwide. If nothing is done to slow the epidemic, the number will exceed 333 million by 2025. Severe health-related complications of diabetes account for about six percent of total health budgets in developed countries. In both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, chronically high levels of glucose in the bloodstream can progressively damage nerves and small blood vessels ('microvascular complications'), increasing the risk of various complications (statistics below are based on data from economically developed countries):
- Blindness: Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness and visual disability in adults in economically developed societies. Findings suggest that, after 15 years of having the condition, two percent of people with diabetes become blind and 10 percent develop severe visual impairment.
- Kidney disease: Diabetes is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease, accounting for about one-third of new cases.
- Nerve disease and amputations: About 70 percent of people with diabetes have some degree of nerve damage which, when severe, can lead to lower limb amputation. Diabetes is the leading cause of non-traumatic lower limb amputations.
General Diabetes Information
Children with Diabetes
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Mount Everest
Summitted May 23, 2006.
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Mount Elbrus
Summited September 26, 2005.
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Mount Everest
South Summit of Mount Everest reached May 31,2005
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