A new study has revealed that nearly 40 percent of type 1's diagnosed after the age of 30.

[Amity Island]

A new study has revealed that nearly 40 percent of Americans with type 1 diabetes were diagnosed after the age of 30.

Though type 1 diabetes onset is still widely associated with childhood, the researchers learned that more than half of type 1 diabetes cases developed in adults. 37 percent of survey participants reported that they were diagnosed after the age of 30. The sample included patients who were diagnosed as late as their seventies and eighties. The study also revealed that men and people of color tend to be diagnosed at later ages.

Type 1 Diabetes is Far More Common in Adults Than Most Realize

A new report reveals that about half of new type 1 diabetes cases occur in adults.

www.diabetesdaily.com

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen research suggesting that the diagnosis split is approx 50% in childhood and 50% in adulthood.

So there will be way more adults with T1 than children with T1 (as each year a whole batch of T1 kids will tick over into adulthood).

 

[mikeyB]

That concept of way more adults rather depends on the death rate being lower than the birth rate.

In Italy, the birth rate is now lower than the death rate across the population, which is decreasing now - and this will continue to fall with all the economic effects coming to pass, with not enough people paying tax to support older people's pensions.

This will happen in this country - indeed, it's been encouraged by the government limiting child benefit to two children. 2.5 children per family is needed on average to replace the population. Immigration, maybe?

 

[Bruce Stephens]

2.5 children per family is needed on average to replace the population.

I realise this is very much a side issue, but I can't see why that would be true? Surely the "2.5 children" is (or was, at one time) just the average family size (probably in the US)? There's no particular reason for that being necessary (it would depend on how many children survived to adulthood, for one thing).