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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When Kerri Sparling was 7 years old, she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Her family didn't know anyone with the disease, so they sent her to diabetes camp ? "where every single camper had Type 1 diabetes," she says.
"That was my first sense of not only other people who had diabetes, but a true community," says Sparling.
Things are very different today. About 26 million Americans have diabetes ? mostly Type 2 ? and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that as many as one-third of adults could have diabetes by 2050.
People living with diabetes have created a vibrant online community. Big drug companies are certainly taking notice ? and some advocacy groups feel that the Food and Drug Administration should as well.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...elps-diabetes-patients-and-drugmakers-connect
"That was my first sense of not only other people who had diabetes, but a true community," says Sparling.
Things are very different today. About 26 million Americans have diabetes ? mostly Type 2 ? and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that as many as one-third of adults could have diabetes by 2050.
People living with diabetes have created a vibrant online community. Big drug companies are certainly taking notice ? and some advocacy groups feel that the Food and Drug Administration should as well.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...elps-diabetes-patients-and-drugmakers-connect