Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Kirsten Schull is a power mom. Living in the dairy-farming country of Warren, Utah, she and her husband consider themselves to have a normal family of eight children. All are musically gifted, while some into computers, sports and singing.
And six of her eight children have type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes affects 25.8 million people, 8.3 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Within those numbers, about 215,000 people under the age of 20 are diagnosed with diabetes and 5 percent of the total have type 1 diabetes.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865573557/Families-living-with-type-1-diabetes.html
Wow! Talk about genetic links! 😱
And six of her eight children have type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes affects 25.8 million people, 8.3 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Within those numbers, about 215,000 people under the age of 20 are diagnosed with diabetes and 5 percent of the total have type 1 diabetes.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865573557/Families-living-with-type-1-diabetes.html
Wow! Talk about genetic links! 😱